AP Scumbags.

Own It, Mr. Secretary When you decided to allow journalists to photograph the coffins of returning service members at Dover, you broke down a barrier that should have been left intact. Since the dawn of time, human societies have had taboos. They exist for a reason. They exist because some things simply ought to be unthinkable, and nothing short of a total ban will prevent some people from pushing the envelope. The media have contended, over and over, that the photographing of coffins and dead bodies and wounded soldiers or Marines thrashing about in agony are necessary to help the American people understand the cost of war. Evidently, the availability of graphic war movies depicting fountains of blood and oozing gore are insufficient visual aids.

What she said; Cassandra is much better at writing than I am.