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just finished reading an article on the train bombing in spain...big two page photograph along with the article, that shows deceased people trapped in rubble, as well as what looks to be body parts......one of the females could clearly be identified if someone who knew her saw the picture.....

reminds me of when US troops were in Somalia. Newsday had an image on the cover of the paper of a bare chested, clearly dead US solider, being dragged through the streets. could clearly make out the man's face.

are these images necessary to tell a story? or is it just sensationalism at its best?? do people not get the severity of things without these images? what about the dead and their family? is it disrespecting them??? I feel like its anything to sell a paper/magazine...

I find it interesting, because in other countries graffic pictures are the norm rather than the exception. Even in Trinidad the Express will put a pictrue of the dead man on the front page. The London Press is notorious for this kind of journalism. Maybe the question we should ask is whether Americans are too sensitive to things like death and nudity etc.

good ques. but i think for one it may be a disrespect to the fam., but at the same time, it let's us know the severity of things like that. hearing about something, and seeing it are two different things and could have different impacts on ppl.

I'd have to agree with Trinibaje. Death is a part of life and pictures of a graffic nature of very much a normal thing in most other countries. I remember vividly seeing a picture of a boy who was shot in the chest and you could see the gun shot entry wounds. That's a bit more graffic than some of the pictures I have seen of the train bombings in Madrid.

I agree with Baje...growing up in JA, it was normal for the newspeople to reach the scene of an accident before police, and it was nothing to see someone with their guts hanging out on the evening news.

I must say when I go back and see things like that, it really shocks me because I've become so used to NOT seeing it...

I think it is for these people to get awards for the photos and articles at the end of the year. And of course to sell papers. You tend to be a little more interested if you see blood or guts on the front of a paper.

bottom line, Rainbows and smiles dont sell papers

good points...the US is not as graphic as other places and maybe needs to be less sensitive....i just think of how upsetting it would be to see my husband or some other family member in that condition on newsstands all over..

are these photos helpful? *i.e. with xtasyred's example...do u think by showing someone being shot, it will make people think twice b4 doing something like that cause they saw what it does??*