We owe thanks to Sid Hastings, a former photo editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for alerting us to another change in the military’s policy on photos of slain personnel in eastern Afghanistan. Hastings pointed out the update in…
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The U.S. military has banned journalists embedded with troops in eastern Afghanistan from photographing military personnel killed in combat.
Daryl Lang writes on the Photo District News web site — pdnonline.com:
“Media will not be allowed to photograph or
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