With soldiers silhouetted against dramatic desert sunsets, or helicopters swooping over cityscapes, most mainstream-media photographs we see of the war in Iraq are nothing if not models of artistic composition and taste.
For the most part, though, they are also devoid of the human tragedy that everybody knows is happening there minute by minute.
One view in the news industry has it that readers should be spared the depressing details.
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