[cadillac1234]

This is a tough situation with both sides being partially right.

Victims have suffered enough without having to be shown on TV a thousand times. OTHO, seeing 5000 dead bodies has a lot more impact than hearing about 5000 dead bodies.

I think if Americans got to see the devastation of war first hand, opinions would rapidly change on warfare.

Katrina is a seperate case but the principle is the same. By only hearing about the dead and not actually seeing the amount of corpses, it ends up sanitizing the situation and may lead to less positive changes in the future.

Showing close-ups of the dead is going overboard , IMHO, but seeing a morgue setting and seeing the amount of lives lost will really drice the point home how f'd up the situation really is.