A photograph appearing in the May 28 edition of The New York Times depicted a pro-Iraq war demonstrator standing across from a group of anti-Iraq war protestors in Lewes, Delaware. The caption read, “Jeffery Broderick, foreground, standing alone last week in support of United States troops as demonstrators for peace occupy an opposite corner” -- asserting in essence that Broderick, and Broderick alone, demonstrated in support of the troops while implying that those protesting the war did not.

The photograph, which accompanied a May 28 Times article headlined "Silence Speaks Volumes at Intersection of Views on Iraq War":

As Media Matters for America has repeatedly documented (here, here, here, and here), various media outlets have suggested that opposition to the Iraq war and support for U.S. troops are mutually exclusive positions. The implication that those who oppose the war do not support the troops was repeatedly recycled by the media in 2006, when anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and Beverly Young, wife of Rep. Bill Young (R-FL), were ejected from the 2006 State of the Union address for wearing Iraq-war themed T-shirts, and in 2005, when news outlets labeled Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA) “pro-military,” suggesting most Democrats are not.