It’s just a matter of time.
That’s what I told a Kalish Visual Editing workshop on the campus of Ball State University just last week. I told the group that it was a matter of time before they were forced to make a decision on a graphic photograph and they needed to be prepared to defend their decision.
Today, one week later, CNN is posting what it calls “unverified images” ostensibly of the militant group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) killing more than 200 militants, according to Iraqi state TV reports this morning.
The images are as graphic as photographs from the 2004 killing of four American civilian contractors in Fallujah, Iraq. (Poynter explored the topic then, too.)
These still photographs are being streamed across the Internet, and editors all around the globe are considering displaying the graphic nature of people being killed in cold blood.… Read more