The Mourning Paper
David Simpson: On war and showing pictures of the dead, 20 May 2004
“... were those of the now dead – along with a photo of a British coffin being unloaded at RAF Brize Norton. The Times’s running headnote, ‘A Nation at War’, echoed ‘A Nation under Attack’, which ran in the days after 9/11. In between was the eerie iconographic emptiness of Afghanistan, now largely forgotten. The war has been about the control of ... ”