I want you to look very closely at this picture and try and keep it in your mind's eye. This was a perfectly healthy twenty-two-year-old young man who in the service of his country got half of his head blown off. This is some American mother's son, her little boy, he may be gay or straight or transgender but his life is fucked forever. I think that is important, I think that is newsworthy. Let me tell you how newsworthy I think it is. I think that it is more important than chocolate cake recipes and comic book reviews. How did this come to happen to this poor mother's son? It came to happen because the people in the media who are supposed to foster a public debate on such public issues as war instead used their franchise to promote articles about chocolate cake and comic book reviews. They see their free press as free to choose not to look when bad things happen. They feel no need to explain to his parents or to anyone else that the war that blew off half of this poor boy's head was based on out and out lies.
http://open.salon.com/blog/david_cox/2010/02/25/the_picture
