Digital Cameras Change War Photo-Journalism

prakslash writes "Back in 1945, it took three days between the time U.S. Marines raised the flag on Iwo Jima and the famous picture of the historic moment was published in all the newspapers. In 2004, it took barely an hour before the explosive photos from an Iraqi prison were seen all over the world. This drives home a defining fact of 21st century - the pervasiveness of digital photography and the speed of the Internet are making it easier to see into dark corners previously out of reach of the mass media. As reported in recent news, some of the most shocking Iraqi photos were not taken by photo-journalists but by soldiers and government contractors who used a digital camera, a CD burner and an internet connection to zip the photos around the world with an ease that has never existed before."

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Re:Big time.

[Twirlip of the Mists]

Wow. That's gotta be some kind of record. Never have I had a post get down-moderated so fast.

Somebody out there must have been deeply, deeply offended by what I said.

Gee. I wonder who that could have been?

Re:Parent is a rant

[FurryFeet]

Perhaps they understand that, in a violent, racist, zealous, genocide-prone world, lethal violence is sometimes necessary.

Sure. "We had to kill them to save them". Right on.

...don't go tarring the entire military with the same brush... that's how racists and fanatical islamists think.

Wow.... just wow. You should win a Nobel Prize for unintended irony, or something.

if it wasn't for those troops (and thousands of others like them) protecting your rights, you wouldn't be writing such trollish rants in this forum.

Yeah. Because Saddam was about to use his WMD on an unsuspecting America. Thank God he was stopped in time.