If you picked up a copy of the New York Times this past Sunday, you were probably struck by this photo, just below the fold, on A1.

It is shocking, right?

I mean, I'm looking at it right now.

It's a seven-year-old girl, and she looks like a baby bird.

She's so thin.

Right, and in that same image, what struck some of us is she's also, you know, gives the impression of just looking away with, which both makes it easier and harder to look and to take it in.

This little girl is named Amal Hussein. She lives in Yemen, and she's starving.

The reaction has been, I thought we might get, based on other stories, you know, over the years,

I thought we might get people protesting the use of such graphic imagery.

But for the most part, actually I didn't hear any protest, what we got were a lot of people

who just wrote in and said, how can we help? Eric Nagorny has been editing stories about Yemen at the times for a lot of people who just wrote in and said, how can we help?

Eric Nagorny has been editing stories about Yemen at the times for a while,

and he says the response he got from readers on this story.

It just wasn't what he was expecting.

Many of his emails were angry.

They were very, very angry, and they said, in one form or another, why did you ignore this story?

Which was a frustrating response because, you know, a simple Google search would show that we actually have written about Yemen quite a lot.

Eric says the problem with covering what's been happening in Yemen is that it's really complicated.

And at its heart, this is a policy story.

People are not starving or on the brink of mass starvation because there was an earthquake.

You know, there was no plague of locust. There was no, you know, nothing biblical has happened there.

Instead, they're starving, although they're surrounded by food because of political decisions by

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