AMERICAN MEDIA REDISCOVERS ITS MODESTY
American television news organization rediscovered their long-standing reticence to show images of brutality that might "offend" viewers, a reticence lost several weeks ago when photos began to emerge from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

In a novel twist, media squemishness has now extended beyond images to the written word. Reporting in today's New York Times, Dexter Filkins omits any description of the murder of Michael Berg in his front page story on the murder of Michael Berg.