From the Baltimore Sun, by David Zurawik and Stephanie Shapiro:
"Television coverage of the war in Iraq crossed a new threshold this week when network and cable news channels aired footage of an American Marine as he shot to death an apparently unarmed and wounded Iraqi insurgent who lay in a Fallujah mosque. It was the first time that a videotaped image has been televised of any U.S. military personnel killing an Iraqi.
The coarse words and graphic pictures, which at times had the appearance of a combat video game, were aired only days after 60 TV stations declined to air the Academy Award-winning film about World War II, Saving Private Ryan, because some of its dialogue was deemed too profane. Recorded by an NBC cameraman who was serving as videographer for a pool of 10 news organizations, the images from Fallujah quickly spread yesterday across the Internet and became fodder for radio and television talk shows."
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