Kat, on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer (PBS), every evening they finish the newscast by showing pictures, complete with name, rank, age, and hometown of those killed in Iraq within the last few days ("as soon as pictures become available"). Silence. No commentary, just the photo. They've been doing this since the war began. It's all too brief, but at least they do it. To see the face, even for just a few seconds, of, say, a nineteen-year-old just killed within the last day or two raises it considerably above the level of mere statistics.

Of course, for doing such things, PBS is regarded by some as "the liberal media."

Don Firth