Posted 7:26 PM by Floyd

Andrew Sullivan linked to a Reuters story that appeared on Yahoo.
It's short and sweet; you need spend only twenty seconds reading it before you feel the urge to vomit:

(a photograph of the WTC ruins)

Recovery and debris removal work continues at the site of the World Trade Center known as "ground zero"
in New York, March 25, 2002. Human rights around the world have been a casualty of the U.S. "war on
terror" since September 11. REUTERS/Peter Morgan

Here is a letter I sent through
the Yahoo feedback form:

Re: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/020903/170/2673q.html&e=2

I realize that you do not generate or edit the news stories that appear on your site. Nonetheless you are responsible
for them to some extent, as without your cooperation they would be presented in Yahoo.

Now here is my complaint: I have an expectation that when I read an article labelled as news, that it does not contain
a snide, irrelevant, and false editorial message. I have an expectation that when I am shown the site of a mass murder,
that I shall not be preached to by some arrogant twit that making war on murderers -- and as a byproduct enabling Afghans
to enjoy kite flying, music, and personal grooming -- is somehow an attack on the world's civil liberties.

And I have an expectation that I'm not the only Yahoo customer -- excuse me, former customer -- who believes this.

A letter to Reuters comes later. After my hands stop shaking.

Update
Little Green Footballs had an article about this,
and someone pointed out in a comment that Peter Morgan was the photographer, not the caption writer, and almost
certainly had nothing to do with this. I changed the above text to read "A letter to Reuters ...". My apologies to Morgan.