Study: Media Self-Censored on Iraq

Would the U.S. ever left Vietnam without reporters and photographers sending back gut-wrenching stories and disturbing images from the war? That's the question that occurs to me as I read this disturbing report on an American University survey of journalists working in Iraq. "In most instances, news managers self-censored coverage by choosing to run less-graphic images or putting details inside the paper and not on front pages." If Americans continue to believe that we should still be in Iraq, maybe it's because we haven't seen what's going on there. Who will tell us what's happening if not the journalists who have seen it? Read more on the study: http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21538/