Thursday, May 31, 2007

I don't remember Ernie Pyle doing this...

The New York Times today has an article in which the reporter more or less argues that pictures of the wounded and killed are necessary to accurately report on war.

Funny, I've got a copy of Brave Men on my bookshelf, and it doesn't seem like Pyle needed pictures of corpses to get his point across. Can it really be true that those working for the Gray Lady forget the journalistic achievements of the past so quickly?

2 comments:

MainiacJoe said...

I really enjoy reading Ernie Pyle. I don't have material from contemporary correspondents to compare it to, but even so I can see why he was so esteemed. Have you read _This is Your War_ yet? It's the book he wrote before Brave Men, about Tunisia mostly. If I end up going to IU for my PhD then I'll be able perhaps to read some of his stuff from the archives there.

Bike Bubba said...

Not yet--and that would be time well spent to visit that library. How's the search going?