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I remember after the tsunami a few years ago seeing giant color picture on the front page of my "family" newspaper: It was an overhead shot of a huge pile of dead bodies, in various states of dress. Fairly prominent in the photo was the body of a woman lying face up, her dress flapped open to reveal full frontal nudity.
I remember thinking at the time that our news media refused to show pictures of dead American soldiers in Iraq but never had a problem showing dead Iraqis. And in this picture, they had no problem showing a naked dead tsunami victim from another brown people's country. Trust me, no one complained.
This false prudery among American media and their many stupid viewers/readers is disgusting.
