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...worked to make it so, and too much of the media has acquiesced. The Department of Defense, claiming the interests of families, has enforced a ban on photos and videos of coffins, and although journalists complained, it took an independent blogger (Russ Kick, at www.thememoryhole.org to find and publish military photos of the caskets at Dover Air Force Base. And unlike in the Vietnam war, images of battlefield dead, even when available, rarely make it into the American media, in part because of concerns that they would seem intrusive or distasteful. We will spend millions for pictures of Angelina Jolie...
Capture the Flag Tuesday, July 11, 2:45 a.m.: Five individuals were found to be attempting to steal a flag from the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. The individuals explained that they were removing the flag as part of a historic rivalry. Those who owned the flag were informed and decided not to press charges...
...America who didn't wonder what he or she would have done in the case of the National Security Agency spying story and the recent Treasury revelations. It's impossible to say unless you had all the information before you and could hear the case the government made against publishing. But I believe the moral calculus of whether or not to publish is a basic one: Does the potential harm to public security outweigh the likely benefit to the public interest? If it does, hold fire. Attempting to answer that question isn't easy, but that's our responsibility...
More than fifty years ago, when Updike himself was in his late teens, he was an English concentrator at Harvard and president of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. As an undergrad, he was involved in an infamous conflict between The Crimson and the Lampoon that led to the kidnapping of a bird and a president...
...aggressive free media publicizing shortcomings in government, this nation would work ineffectively at its public business. [The press] talking about a generalized vulnerability we have--that trains aren't protected--and railing against it sufficiently is more likely to protect us than put us in peril. If you publish diagrams of network computer switching, that wouldn't be the case...