Re: Graphic video

["Joseph Pappalardo" <joepappalardo2001@yahoo.com>]

I  guess you are right.  Points very well taken.

I guess maybe I'm just used to disagreeing with Dan.  ;-)


Joe!





From: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

> That's their job.  News people in all forms of media have the
> responsibility of editorial judgment.  From what I've seen and heard,
> broadcasters have taken a far more sensitive and responsible approach
> to this tragedy than some incidents in the past --


From: "Dan Billings" <dib9@gwi.net>

>
> They used editorial judgment, which journalists do every day.  They
probably
> decided that showing the video was not necessary to improve viewers
> understanding of the tragedy.  They probably also considered the effect
the
> video would have on viewers and the families of the victims.


From: "Richard Chonak" <rac@gabriel.cambridge.ma.us>

>
> Most people do not want their final suffering and death exposed to
> public view.   In a way, Joe, these things are a sacred part of each
> person's life, and not showing them is an act of respect.


From: "Sven Franklyn Weil" <sven@gordsven.com>
>
> Right...I don't see how showing pictures of people jumping out windows
> helps anything (except a slight uptick in the ratings generated by some
> very very morbid people who tune in to watch this sort of stuff).


From: "Bill O'Neill" <billo@shoreham.net>

> Amen to that. To replay loops of panicked individuals jumping seventy
> stories to their death would only warm the hearts of the perpetrators
> and misguided supporters.


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