RawStory went too far with link to picture of Lance Cpl. Bernard

Just below where I cut this article off, is a link to the photo in question. I love RawStory and will keep reading it, but this time I think they could have left out a link to the picture. I believe the family is the only one that matters on this and it should be up to them. No one else. It is the same with media coverage of the coffins and military funerals. It's up to the family.

Sorry RawStory but you are wrong this time but at least you had enough class to not put the picture up on the article itself.

Pentagon incensed with AP over photo of dying soldier

By Raw Story

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has sharply criticized the US news agency the Associated Press (AP) for distributing a photograph of a mortally wounded Marine in Afghanistan.

Gates, in a letter Thursday to AP president Thomas Curley, described as “appalling” the news agency’s decision to distribute the graphic picture of Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard to its clients.

Gates noted that the decision to transmit the photo was made “over the objection of Lance Corporal Bernard’s grieving father” and he asked the AP “in the strongest of terms to reconsider.”
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Pentagon incensed with AP over photo of dying soldier