Picturing the War

April 11, 2003

Thousands of people have died since bombs started falling in Iraq, but the photos that have appeared in American newspapers and magazines have been relatively bloodless. Is it possible to accurately portray the brutality of war without showing graphic images of death? Brooke talks with the New York Times' new Picture Editor, Jim Wilson, about the paper's criteria for printing war photos.


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