A year after a big deal was made about lifting the ban on photos of returning war dead from Iraq and Afghanistan, it appears that news outlets are not using the visuals as much, according to CNN.com

A CNN report and analysis finds fewer news outlets want the images of the war casualties:

In the first days after the ban was lifted, the media gave widespread coverage of the neatly choreographed procedure of removing a service member, killed just hours before in Iraq or Afghanistan, from a cargo aircraft to a waiting vehicle.

Over the past year, 472 of these transfers have occurred at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where every casualty is handled by the Air Force Mortuary Affairs Center to prepare the body's return to families.

Of those 472, about 260 -- or 55 percent -- have been open to media coverage, according to statistics from the Mortuary Affairs office. And over the past year, the media attendance has dropped off to a trickle.