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Greenwald, Scahill step down from The Intercept

Not showing dead bodies of warfare helps sustain wars.
Defense Dept doesn't want them shown so public will
support sanitized war. News media doesn't want to show
them so advertizers can show ads which seduce the
public to wanting only sanitized news and war.

Those who profit from sanitized war and news want to
thrill the public with sanitized gore and business glory.
Every war has a sanitization business supporting it,
hiding carnage, cadavers, maimed, insane with
film, books, video, literature, education, religion,
and popular entertainers who valorize bloodthirstiness
and cruelty, venality and greed with sanitized cariatures,
games, parades, medals, cemetaries, monuments,
pensions, vet hospitals, thanks for service.

That way those who have experience actual war can
find nobody who has not who can understand anything
except the sanitized version. Grieving survivors can
find nobody to grasp what they suffer. Traumatized
vets wander among the sanitized zombies, whacking
a few, noticing that none of the other zombies care
a bit, dreaming this Django will end, this Dirty War
will end, sure, take a photo of me with the ghoul,
give me a Pulitzer, an Oscar, an Snowden factory
byline.