AMY GOODMAN: Aaron Glantz, your response.

AARON GLANTZ: The photos of Iraqi civilians that you see in the newspaper are invariably tied to a car bombing by insurgents. And the car bombing is not explained. It's not explained that they're targeting a U.S. military convoy and that they miss, or they're targeting the Iraqi police that are seen as collaborators because they engage in these house to house searches and raids and take people to Abu Ghraib. So, the images that you are seeing, you are not getting the back story for them. You are not getting the story that the woman was killed while she was trying to flee the city, and she was bombed by the U.S. military. So, yes, you are seeing pictures in the newspaper of Iraqi civilian deaths, but you are not getting the story about why they're dead.

JAMES RAINEY: Well, I think it's always dangerous to speak in absolutes. I wasn't in Iraq like Aaron was, but excuse me, one of the most --

AMY GOODMAN: We have five seconds.

JAMES RAINEY: One of the most important images to come out of Iraq was taken by Chris Hondros and showed some young children whose parents had just been killed by American troops. So there certainly was a back story to that, and that's a photo that our paper ran and that Newsweek and many other publications ran. So, I think it's dangerous in this to talk in absolutes.

AARON GLANTZ: Well, absolutes are exactly not true, but we have to see a general pattern. And I think there has been some great journalism that's gone through. I did see --

AMY GOODMAN: Five seconds.

AARON GLANTZ: --in The New York Times, these photos of the Fallujah football stadium once, --

AMY GOODMAN: On that note –

AARON GLANTZ: --but this is shown every day on Al Jazeera.

AMY GOODMAN: We have to leave it there. I want to thank you, Aaron Glantz, Sidney Schanberg and James Rainey, for joining us.

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