intensely generated discomfort for ed robbins. the argument was that taking the one picture, the other pictures created something that gave him notoriety, made it difficult for him to live a so-called normal life after the fact. the argument is that these pictures, because they are very important in capturing the moment, there are tensions of what they actually depict. >> host: professor barbie zelizer, talking about public policy issue that we have been facing last couple of years. fallen soldiers, dead u.s. soldiers. should those images be shown? >> guest: i think that those images should be shown. when someone is facing death, it has become so prevalent. across the landscape of events about which they are concerned. the reason this has arisen with such widespread use is because of pictures of death. i think that is something that we need to be thinking about. it's been involved, death of military, death of people who are dying in tsunamis and earthquakes. it why shouldn't we see them? we see them on television, we see them in f