Julie Jacobson Photo: Scandal Over Released Shot of Dying Marine

I have seen soldiers die, I have picked up the pieces it all horrifies me and perhaps the public should be horrified too? I feel that we should be more concerned with stopping such stupidity of sending soldiers of to pointless wars controlled by politicians and those that pull their strings.

On such an issue concerning a picture of a dead soldier the soldiers family should have been asked their permission first and if they had gave it then yes the picture should of been shown in all its gore as a reminder what war is all about and none of us humans should want our children to end up dead to appease those that make money and gain power out of war. 

I really would not want any of my sons to end up dead on a battle field to fight war no political indoctrination would persuade me it was for Queen/King and country or for the freedom of people as I know its all about money.  Julie Jackobson earns money by taken photo's and it those that publish them that are at fault. 

I am pretty sure people get the idea of what goes on over there. You should be ashamed of yourself, for allowing that photo to be published. If that was your husband, son, brother, father or someone of your family would you have published that photo, I doubt it.

My son is in Afghanistan. I pray to God if anything happens to him, some selfish reporter won't be trying to make a name for herself by standing over him and taking a photo. It sickens me that the AP would publish a photo of a dying marine against his parents wishes. Julie Jacobson and the AP should be ashamed of themselves. I guess money is more important to them than the additional grief they inflicted on an already grieving family. I am tired of the line they put out about keeping the public informed and putting a face on this war. If the parents had agreed I would not have been so upset, but to do this out of nothing but greed really irritates me to no end. I hope karma comes back to bite Ms. Jacobson and the AP. How horrible!!

As a former soldier myself.  I am disappointed that very little is shown of the plight of the soldiers in Afghanistan.  I think the Canadian media does a good job of showing what is going on in Afghanistan.  The American media hasn.t done enough, except maybe at the local level.

The picture may be a good record of what goes on in Afghanistan, nevertheless the families permission should have been asked.

I, for one, would not like to see my son and daughter in such a situation.

AP and Julie are a disgrace. This Young Marine gave his life for his country. Sec Def Gates asked you not to publish it and so did his family. Just goes to show you SOBs are not thankful for the men and women in uniform. Go to hell, all of you.

F**k you AP.

i am continually stupefied by the crass behavior of our media it was bad enough that the picture was even taken ( looking for a Pulitzer at the expense of a Marine?? ), but to have it distributed without the permissionof the family is disgusting just when i didn't think the AP could go any lower they prove me wrong i loo forward top seeing pictures of Julie Jacobson

Censorship is a tool employed to dull the realities of the horrors of war.  However human compassion for the family of this child should bear more worth than it has received in this instance.  The AP editorial board should be ashamed of itself.  To seize on this particular horror is exploitive and a gross misuse of the very freedom that this young man has died for.  His family specifically pleaded that they not publish the photo yet they felt that the photo would reveal war for the horror it is.  The horror in this instance is that they made the shameful decision that they did.  Shame on you... shame.  You undermine and abuse the freedoms that we have entrusted you with... SHAME. 

Family members do not need to see their dying son or daughter on National Tv, losing them is hard as it is versus ratings grabs, Journalists know the rules, no excuse/.

The AP are a bunch of money hungry, fame seeking hypocrits. The reporter who covered this story (I refuse to mention it's name) should have it's US passport cancelled and should have to stay in Afghanastan.

she really sucks!!!!!!!!!

Jacobson and the AP are enemies of the American way of life. That way of life includes the freedom of the press, which Jefferson never imagined could ever be abused the way that it is today. The end result, due to the cupidity of the media, will be the abolition of freedom of expression as we now know it....and that is why I declare that Jacobson and the AP deserve to be torn into small shreds as traitors to America. In addition, they showed disrespect to a Marine, and before being torn into shreds, they should be abused brutally and miserably. So die all traitors.

Jacobson let us all know how you sleep at night.  You have just sold your sole for a buck...Let us know how that works out for you.   You should be ashamed of yourself and your establishment.  You didn't capture war, you captured a lifetime of anguish that a family will live over and over again whenever some self centered egotistical snob, such as yourself,  decides to throw this image up in there face...You have destroyed lives forever.  Good  for you.  Would'nt wanted to be reaping your seeds... 

As the parents of a marine who has just completed his 3rd tour, this disgusts us.  No matter what your reasoning, AP, you are despicable.  And, Ms. Kells, I note that you have the video and pictures available for viewing.  Had it been my child, I would be suing the pants off of all of you.  This is not freedom of the press, this was, once again, sensationalism at it's finest.  I hope, Ms. Jacobson, that one of those mortars/bullets finds you so that your parents can live though this.  Just as, against thier wishes, the Bernards are.   It just goes to show, we have the best press that money can buy!  

My login says it all.

Please post a pic of the next AP employee ( or family member!) who is about to die.  Make sure you get it before they die and are in obvious trouble so we can all speculate.....It must be graphic.   Please post family email addresses too, as obviously AP thinks nothing is private.

Very sorry people you are.  You can all go to ----.

Jim P

At least many of the media outlets showed more compassion and discretion by choosing not to run the photograph. It shows that not all of the media have sunken as low as the AP and Julie Jacobson. Thank you Ms. Kells for reporting both sides fairly of the debate and for clearly stating that you agree the photograph should not have been released without the consent of the family. But why have the link to the photo posted here? Isn't that just continuing to misuse this photo?

Whatever be the justification of AP and the news outlets that have published this photo - the family did not want it published, and that is the bottomline. AP should have respected the wishes of the family. The AP photographer may not have been at fault for taking the photo, but what happened subsequently appears to have been driven by financial greed. I think removal of all AP photographers embedded with our troops is called for.

I find it repulsive that the AP photographer and the AP itself found it necessary to post the photo of this brave young Marine. The boy's family indicated it didn't want the picture to be shown. Where is the sense of common decency here? All for the almighty $$$. Even if the decision makers in this process suffered a lifetime of sleepless nights because of this, I doubt it would come anywhere near close to that of the family of this young Marine.  May GOD rest his soul and comfort his family.

Jacobson, her editor and the AP should all be touched by shame to their core, for the rest of their lives.  The media has countless images that portray the horrors of war.  This one serves absolutely NO additional purpose, and the family said that they did not want it published.  The US military should never allow her to embed with a unit again.  She is not trustworthy, and has no honor, character or integrity.  War is horrible enough, and for one family, she made it unimaginably worse.  They already lost a son/brother/cousin/nephew.  Now they have to deal with a national media that puts the almighty dollar ahead of the respect that should be afforded a family that paid the ultimate price.Shame on every media outlet that publishes the image.

I wonder what families of Jacobson or Curley would say if a picture of their rotting corpses were put on the web?

My deepest sympathies for the family.  I have lost a child, not to war, but I know a little about the loss of a child.  Having said that, I just feel like we need to see these images so that we can stop allowing the government to keep us willfully ignorant of what is going on.  Sanitized reality for the good of the few doesn't seem worth the loss that the rest of the world experiences.