As tecnologias digitais e as imagens das torturas Várias referências que chamam a atenção para o papel que tiveram para o jornalismo as máquinas e os suportes digitais, no caso das torturas e abusos cometidos por soldados norte-americanos no Iraque: - Vin Crosbie, no E-Media TidBits: "Digital Cameras & Photo Phones Indeed Might Revolutionize Photojournalism" - "Digital Photos Change Iraq War Perception" (Associated Press): "Digital Cameras and Speed of Internet Change How Iraq War Is Perceived in U.S., Around World. The explosive photos of abuse in an Iraqi prison drive home a defining fact of 21st century life that the pervasiveness of digital photography and the speed of the Internet make it easier to see into dark corners previously out of reach for the mass media". - Tim Porter, no First Draf: Digital proof, human source: "One thing is for certain: Digital cameras have changed the nature of news sources. What was once asserted to be true can now be proven (and, of course, manipulated). The latest batch of Abu Ghraib photos, published today by the Washington Post, was "mixed in with more than 1,000 digital pictures obtained by" the paper, most of which resembled "a travelogue from Iraq," albeit one with a side-trip to a wax museum of horrors. The pictures were burned onto CDs and "circulated among soldiers in the 372nd," the Post reported. Of course. For a digital generation of soldiers accustomed to Napstering music, it's no technology leap at all and not much of an ethical step to burn a platter of soft-core prison porn and pass it around. This is the world's most technologically-enabled fighting force, and not just militarily".