Friday 26 August 2011

INTERNET1 ASSIGNMENT2 WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH DAILY DESPATCH JOURNALIST?

I can quite understand the reaction of some people regarding the publication of the photo of the dead baby. The newspaper’s justification is hypocritical as it is obvious that the main reason for publishing such a picture was pecuniary: it was meant to sell as many newspapers as possible.
However, a very interesting and pertinent commentary was submitted by a a first year journalism student lined our inability to come to terms with death, by and large a taboo subject in our society. I would like to think that the newspaper obtained prior permission from the family to publish the photo oh! wait does this babies family know that their baby is in a bin?
 which would make the argument of the family’s pain at seeing such a photo null and void. One must ask oneself what is really shocking in that photo besides the fact that the baby is dead. It is indeed a very sad and powerful picture for it touches us in an extremely sensitive way. If publishing it could have maybe exposed the eastern cape morgue then it was a right thing to
well if it was my baby in that bin i will definitely sue the news paper and the eastern cape morgue

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