FEMA Wants No Photos of Dead - Forums powered by Reason and Principle: "Category: News & Opinion (General) Topic: News & Current Events | From Reuters | September 7, 2005
KATRINA'S AFTERMATH
NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. agency leading Hurricane Katrina rescue efforts said Tuesday that it does not want the news media to photograph the dead as they are recovered.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, heavily criticized for its slow response to the devastation caused by the hurricane, rejected journalists' requests to accompany rescue boats searching for storm victims.
An agency spokeswoman said space was needed on the rescue boats.
'We have requested that no photographs of the deceased be made by the media,' the spokeswoman said in an e-mail.
djarum writes: 'This maybe explains why the local media is staying away from pictures of the dead in NO.
There was an earlier thread on this topic. --
NEW ORLEANS' DEAD SHOW UP IN FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS'"
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