No it's not, read the article.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220302035710/https://www.nytim...
>>the news media will now be allowed to photograph the flag-draped coffins of America's war dead as their bodies are returned to the United States
And please stop with your cheap "indymedia"
>Which is a very different thing from not reporting on them.
Yes different but not far away from hiding...you know a picture say's more then thousand word's, the pentagon knows that too.
The difference is seeing 30 coffins on the way home, compared to one coffin returning to he's home village.
1 Coffin = Bad, but it is like it is.
30 Coffins on one Flight/Picture...terrible.
> 1 Coffin = Bad, but it is like it is.
> 30 Coffins on one Flight/Picture...terrible.
Is that what the Russian government is doing?
Restricting photographs on government facilities to prevent bad optics (while allowing reporters to write, say, publish, and broadcast whatever they want)?
Reporters in Russia are free to publish what they want?
Remember, you brought this up to draw a parallel with what the Russian government is doing.
No that's what the canceled US policy was for...did you still not read the article?
In Russia you can't talk about it because it's a state secret now, means you are not allowed to talk about deaths in the "special" operation.
No sure why you are so blind on one eye but not on the other?
>Remember, you brought this up to draw a parallel with what the Russian government is doing.
I did never said it's the same. But it has the same goal, try to hide the results of war on your own soldiers.
As you can read:
>>Yes different but not far away from hiding...you know a picture say's more then thousand word's, the pentagon knows that too.
> During the 2nd gulf war against Iraq, when the death toll began to rise, the US government forbade the reporting of military personnel coffins returning from the war zone
This is demonstrably false:
https://la.indymedia.org/news/2008/01/212729.php
You then provided an article that said the US had reversed its policy of “not allowing photographs” of military coffins.
Which is a very different thing from not reporting on them.
The rule against photographs only applied military bases, which already have very strict rules about photography.
Your initial claim was that there reporters were forbidden to report on bodies returning home. You made this claim to draw a parallel with Russian censorship.
The Russians arent merely making access to military bases conditional on not taking photographs - they’re engaging in political censorship.
Again, it’s very, very, very common to restrict photography on military bases, even by members of the press.