] So pictures of horror, at a certain point, no longer
] function as news; they become, themselves, the news. The
] papers that have run the photographs from Fallujah have
] been getting scores of letters from readers, some
] appreciative, some not. But that's just the problem: It's
] a fine thing when readers think about what their local
] papers do, but on the whole, one would rather they were
] thinking about Iraq.

Front Page Horror - Should newspapers show us violent images from Iraq? By Jim Lewis