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Editor & Publisher Woman Who Took 'Coffin' Photo Hails Press Coverage

"Former contractor Tami Silicio, fired last week by Maytag Aircraft after her photograph of several flag-draped coffins of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq appeared in the press, believes newspapers have done an excellent job covering her story. "The newspapers have opened my eyes to what that picture meant for everyone in the nation," Silicio told E&P this week. "I didn't realize how censored the United States has been on what's going on in Iraq.""

""I'm overwhelmed with all of the newspaper coverage," she said. "The newspapers have done a lot of good for the country because people are realizing how censored things have been.""

Online Journalism Review Which Words Is a War Photo Worth? Journalists Must Set the Standard
"We have long heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but no one has ever figured out which words an image stands for in the news of war.

Perhaps nowhere has this been as problematic as during the latest war in Iraq, when images of war have been traveling as fast and as furiously as at any earlier time in history. Unlike the words at their side, the images of the war in Iraq have drawn a sustained degree of public attention, as pundits, military and government officials, journalists and members of the public have debated the very issue of image display -- whether to show an image, where to show an image, and how to show an image."

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