Pentagon Lifts Ban

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101196080

This NPR article addresses the recent lift of the ban on media pictures of soldier coffins. Pentagon now allows the family to decide whether or not media photography should be allowed at the Dover. This article is well written and organized into an inverted pyramid.
But the really interesting thing here is the media's influence. The right to free press has always had limits. President Bush Sr. started the ban in 1991. The image of dead soldiers returning home in hundreds doesn't represent the president in command very well. It seems that when war goes on, the government tries to cover the negative press coverage. This sugar-coating of war seems dishonest.