--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
Christopher-
On French Paris Match (paper magazine), last summer, saw photo of israeli soldier killed in combat, brain cavity was emply, brian
had
been removed by impact, cranium was 1/2 missing, and photo showed
the
inside of the head with the brain mostly removed, and part of the skull still attached and hanging. Soldier was on a stretcher,
others
were mulling about paying him no attention. This kind of photo,
we
don't see on US tv/print media.
Well, the conclusion that this is a US vs. Euro phenomenon seems overreaching. I've never seen such photos in German newspapers, for
example. German media always seemed very sanitized to me.
Point taken. Is there an article somewhere discussing the differences in media reporting between various european countries?
Link to but where?
To a file uploaded on our server (provided copyright is not an issue), using a [[Media:]] link.
So we host the photo but don't include it with the article, but on a separate instance (machine) that is easily accessible.
Do we provide thumprints?
What's truly gained? I mean, having a link to an image and the image itself are fairly the same. If we cloak the penis image because it offends, do we cloak the democratic demonstration? The photo of dalai Lama? The headshot wound? The gnarly, nasty, disgusting-looking yet medically significant photo of a "insert horrible, disfiguring medical condition"?
I wonder. I think this might lead to bias. What shows in the article, verus what is not shown. (Mao's photo shown in article, Sun Yat Sen's photo cloaked (available, but only through a link)...
I wonder.
===== Christopher Mahan chris_mahan@yahoo.com 818.943.1850 cell http://www.christophermahan.com/
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