talbotlucas.org: a word to the wise is sufficient

At the end of its broadcast The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer shows, in silence, the photographs of servicemen and women who have died in Iraq, along with their names, ages, and home towns. They broadcast this information as it is made public. Some nights I find it quite unsettling; one might become numb to casualty figures, but sharing the faces and personal information behind those figures takes them from the sanitary realm of statistics to real life, or more accurately, real death.

Would it change perceptions of the war in Iraq if, as a public service feature, all news broadcasts, or at least all national ones, did the same thing? (By "same" I mean the same format as the NewsHour, unaccompanied by fanfare or commentary.) Perhaps it would make a lot of viewers uncomfortable, and perhaps that wouldn't be such a bad result.