Thursday, March 27, 2008

There is much discussion over censoring photos and video clips for news. It is hard sometimes to tell waht will offend people and what the public has a right to know. In my opinion, very very disturbing images should only be revealed when there is no other way of expressing what happened. In the video clip we saw today of the Govenor shooting himself, I do not think the whole clip needs to be shown to express what happened. The public certainly has the right to see some of the images from it but I do not think they need to full clip or the image with the gun in his mouth. I think the photos should be allowed up until you know he is not going to shoot anyone else. At this point the audience is fully aware that he is killing himself with a gun, it does not complete the story anymore to see blood pouring out of his head or his lips sealed around the gun. I think a general rule should be applied for situation like this regarding images. If it were one of your family memebers would you want that photo/video running?

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