NEWS 409 Lecture Notes - Lecture 46: Malaysia Airlines, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Picture Editor
31 Mar 2019
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A recent slew of situations resulting in catastrophic violence and death, including the israel- How can we refuse to acknowledge a mere representation a picture of a horrific event, while other people are forced to live through the horrific event itself? . If we"re big enough to fight a war, we should be big enough to look at it. There is, concurrently, a fear by others that readers are seeing too many such images and, as a result, are losing their ability to empathize and evaluate what is going on in the avalanche of violence and destruction depicted. Some editors also assert that, as family publications, the added risk of traumatizing children argues against the publication of the most egregious imagery. A recent, first-ever study concentrates on 116 journalists working in three international newsrooms who are repeatedly exposed to images of graphic violence via social media, much of it deemed too shocking to be shown to audiences.
