He was painting a picture of war between the public and private sectors.
The reasons, Dr. Lounsbury said, include concerns about patient privacy and a desire to present an airbrushed picture of war for public consumption.
Mr. Filkins's stories are those of a writer willing to endure hardship, danger and anguish to paint an accurate picture of war for the American public.
MOSCOW — Eduard Y . Volodarsky a Russian screenwriter whose films are recognized classics today in Russia but whose efforts to present a picture of war on his own terms led the Soviet authorities to shelve many of his works for years, died here on Tuesday.
… But he looked so clean-cut and he was one of the men who looked like if it would be the first day of the war he still was earnest about it … So I said: 'All right, this will be my last picture of war.' And I put my camera and took a portrait shot of him".
It seems that every effort has been made to present a sanitized picture of war to the people, one that denies us the opportunity to weep over flag-draped caskets, to feel somehow connected to this conflict in a meaningful way, rather than just through daily briefings of success.
