The Chicago Tribune, one of many media trying to persuade airline passengers that full-body scanners are not a privacy invasion, printed only a rear view of a scanned passenger in today's edition (the article and picture were not posted online).

It also included a picture of weaponry, to try to scare folks into accepting this invasive machine.

If it was being truthful, the newspaper would have printed a frontal view of passengers - male and female. That would clearly demonstrate how scanners bare the details of human anatomy.

Here's a small picture censored by its publisher and a front and back image of another scan. Actual size pictures would be more revealing.

So, how long before these machines display people's nude images at convention centers, rapid transit stations, and office buildings?

It's too bad common sense has been trumped by hysteria.