One Iraqi clampdown is working

As you watch the coverage of today's horrible bombing in Iraq, notice that there are pictures from the hospitals, but no pictures from the attack site. That's because the Iraqi Interior Ministry banned such photos back in mid-May.

Tell me that doesn't shape perception.

(This photography ban was enacted (not) coincidentally the same day the military announced a number of clampdowns on US soldier's use of YouTube, MySpace, and blogs.)