This link takes you to a site that collects photographs of the Katrina Disaster dead. Don't click on it unless you have a strong stomach.
THE IMAGES FEMA DOES NOT WANT YOU TO SEE
Yesterday Reuters reported that FEMA "refused to take reporters and photographers along on boats seeking victims in flooded areas, saying they would take up valuable space need in the recovery effort and asked them not to take pictures of the dead." FEMA Accused of Censorship
Rebecca Daugherty of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press found this stance inexplicable.
"The notion that, when there's very little information from FEMA, that they would even spend the time to be concerned about whether the reporting effort is up to its standards of taste is simply mind-boggling," Daugherty said. "You cannot report on the disaster and give the public a realistic idea of how horrible it is if you don't see that there are bodies as well."
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