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It's shit and tasteless but at what point do you draw the line? I remember when Al Jazeera were lampooned for showing dead US & British soldiers (despite also showing dead Iraqi civilians killed by US troops) because it is "unacceptable to show war dead" & then a few months later Saddam Hussein's sons dead & bloodied faces were plastered everywhere. What I'm saying is that these events are horrific but war, for example, shouldn't be sanitized as it has been over the last 20 odd years by the press being carefully stage managed & there could be a real danger of that if some sort of body has control of what images we see & also it could be open to double standards as I outlined above.
We should see dead soldiers and the unpleasant results of the wars our countries are involved in. We should see the realities of police officers opening fire on unarmed citizens. It could be argued that we should see other shocking images if it serves a purpose, after all if German citizens in the early 40's had seen images of what was going on in the death camps it may have changed opinions or started a dialogue & the Nazi's were very careful about keeping the citizens from seeing the reality for precisely those reasons.
I agree that there is no need to see the last horrified expression of a woman being shot. The best way to show your feelings about it is a boycott of those papers and/or letting your feelings be known rather than insisting that there should be censorship across the board.