Too bad that accounts like this are swept aside in favor of sanitized alternatives, news images of troops patrolling lazily through blown-out store fronts and houses, with locals rummaging through the burned remains of their lives; or tank statistcs with 3D-animated models that are closer to car commercials than objective reportage, as if we are invited to *buy* the damn things ourselves through a mini infomercial. But never your own dead…

Of course, this could all be dismissed as “whining in support of a more liberal media.”

Too bad that accounts like this are swept aside in favor of sanitized alternatives, news images of troops patrolling lazily through blown-out store fronts and houses, with locals rummaging through the burned remains of their lives; or tank statistcs with 3D-animated models that are closer to car commercials than objective reportage, as if we are invited to *buy* the damn things ourselves through a mini infomercial. But never your own dead…

Of course, this could all be dismissed as “whining in support of a more liberal media.”