Obama administration lifts ban on media coverage of returning military coffins
Andrew Lindner, Professor of Sociology at Concordia College in Minnesota, explains how lifting the ban on photographing military coffins could change public opinion about the war, as it did in the Vietnam era. However, Lindner believes it is more likely to change public opinion on Afghanistan than Iraq. (01:05)
April 6, 2009
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