Regarding the Pain of Others

Does the censorship of photography or video showing gruesome depictions having an affect on how the public views the conflict or event?

What sort of physiological effects do these photos have on people?

Is the manipulation of the media meant to suppress the public and to keep them unaware if the the conflict or event?

     In this article Ms.Sontang writes about a issue that has very well played a large role throughout history, the question of  the media, and the fallout of the content the media portrays to the public. Sontang starts off on the role of war photography and how through out time has portrayed many things such as might, horror,pride,and hope but today with censorship laws, but is  th epublic getting the full spectrum of how real  war is?

     With what I personally saw in these photos, Sontang mention, that they were very disturbing in a senses, it got me thinking about the conflict hidden behind these photos and why  it happen, it gave me a little taste of what  war is like, that its gruesome and with out mercy. As Sontang explains the limited coverage of wars such as Iraq and  the Falkland by the government , it doesn't shed a whole lot of light on how serious these conflicts are.Its blind the public so there wouldn't be any outrage about these military ventures, people wouldn't comprehend the lose of live if we dint show what was going on , people need to see the bodies and see the death in order to prevent it in the future. 

       What is also is concerning is how we react to the photos of suffering and pain that we see war photography, we don't react to it as we should, we should be shocked but we aren't, we blow it off as some thing that's not real unless we have in the flesh staring us right in the face, and its really saddening that part of what makes us human has been numbed to a point where real horror and gruesome acts are just lines on paper.