Media's dilemma
Yesterday's gruesome mob attack on the four American "private security workers" in Falluja, Irag was reported widely by the international media. Editors of the major news outlets agonised over the merit of publishing the photographs that showed the charred remains of the bodies being mutilated by the mob. Chunks of flesh were hung from a telephone line and railing of a bridge, while the Iraqis looked on, cheering. Some of the readers and viewers were shocked by the images, which they said were offensive and gratuitous. Editors, however, maintain that showing the grisly pictures were central to conveying the exact news as it happened. They are caught between the journalistic instinct to publish the unfiltered news and respecting the readers' sensitivities.
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