Excellent post jumpseater.
I was not at all impressed at the end of GW1 when we were shown VERY graphic pictures of the carnage on the Basra highway.
I think that we are shown way too many images of death and mutilation in the press and on TV - I'm not squeamish but I do feel that there are certain boundaries to taste and decency.
After all, do we not often use these standards of decency to suggest that we (in the civilized, western world) are better than those "backward cultures" elsewhere?
Every single dead or wounded soldier or civilian is or was a human being, is/was the son or daughter of other human beings and quite possibly has other human beings depending upon them for love, support and livelihood.
Sky worry me - they have a lot of influence on their viewers and we may just come to regard their gutter reporting as the norm.
that said, if you want to see REALLY tastless reporting, the Spanish media take some beating. They show graphic, close ups of terrorist killings, the like of which I have NEVER before seen in European media and they do on-line, computer animations of how the latest ETA victim met their end. These are similar in feel to video games - yet they depict ACTUAL deaths - sickening.