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Not for the first time, media photos of death are stirring controversy. This time it's a storm-chaser's pics of dying girl during the most recent tornado outbreak in Nebraska.
USA Today was among those with the story.
That paper included a no-longer working link to the controversial picture.
The picture is still available if you want to see it.
Here it is in the NY Daily News.
Many people criticized the freelance photographer who took it...and sold it...to the Associated Press. The girl was gravely injured but still alive on the stretcher when the picture was taken. It is without question a powerful picture.
It has always seemed odd to me that pictures of dead civilians or fighters in Afghanistan or Iraq or, frankly, almost anywhere outside the U.S., are fair game.
The famous "falling man" photo from 9-11 was deemed OK, I guess, because you could not tell identify the man leaping from the World Trade Center?
A few years back we had video from a fatal fire in Alabama in which a child was one of the victims. Our video showed a local official carrying the child's blanket covered body to a coroner's van.
There was a heated newsroom discussion about using the video, and eventually the decision was no....even though there was no body visible.
USA Today was among those with the story.
That paper included a no-longer working link to the controversial picture.
The picture is still available if you want to see it.
Here it is in the NY Daily News.
Many people criticized the freelance photographer who took it...and sold it...to the Associated Press. The girl was gravely injured but still alive on the stretcher when the picture was taken. It is without question a powerful picture.It has always seemed odd to me that pictures of dead civilians or fighters in Afghanistan or Iraq or, frankly, almost anywhere outside the U.S., are fair game.
A few years back we had video from a fatal fire in Alabama in which a child was one of the victims. Our video showed a local official carrying the child's blanket covered body to a coroner's van.
There was a heated newsroom discussion about using the video, and eventually the decision was no....even though there was no body visible.
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On The Media has a segment this week about the end of an NPR show called "Tell me More", and the story may tell all of us more about NPR than we knew.
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The student newspaper at Kent State University is following the lead of the big papers in Alabama and elsewhere. They are switching to a three day a week publishing schedule. There is now only one daily---seven day a week--- paper in Alabama's largest cities..The Montgomery Advertiser.
[The Monday Morning Media Memo is a regular feature of www.timlennox.com]
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