And if you scour the web for photographs of dead white Americans, I’m sure you’ll manage to find some. My point, however, is that the thought given to running photos of foreign and/or brown dead bodies is less than that given to photos of Americans and/or whites.

Extrapolating from that - if the West (or America or whatever) viewed people in the developing world as ‘people like us’ rather than ‘people to which things happen’ photographs like this would appear less frequently and the concern about stopping bombings would be greater.

As it stands, the attitude is that this is what happens in the developing world, therefore pictures detailing it are approved with ease and the world goes on. The standards over images are, I would argue, part of a larger category of thought about the developing world.

uh, I don’t think so. This one won the pulitzer. Perhaps we should be more concerned about stopping bombings in brown places than equitable photo opportunites.