By Linda Shrieves
The Orlando Sentinel
Published on 5/15/2004
Excerpt:
“Many of the people I’ve talked to felt the Web is a more appropriate place” for the tape, says Kenny Irby of the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank in St. Petersburg.
Online, people have to search for the image, Irby says, but they would just stumble on it in a newspaper.
But in American culture, where disc jockeys get paid to shock and TV shows such as Fear Factor thrive on bug-eating contestants, Irby thinks news editors should debate the definition of “shocking” — and discuss their justification for whether photographs are published. …
Similarly, the pictures from Fallujah — of the charred bodies of American contractors hanging from a bridge, of a corpse being poked with sticks — “will resonate with Americans,” says Irby, “because of the discussions they spark in broader society.”
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