%% Contemporary Issues in the Media %%
To Show or Not to Show: Ethical Dilemmas Surrounding Extreme Images
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Humanities
Cegep/2
Word count
181 words
Reading time
2 minutes
- Falling men
- People who jumped from the Twin Towers on 9/11
- Censored by American media
- Readers outraged by "disrespectful and invasive content"
- Weaponisation of trauma
- Pro-not show:
- Invade a private moment of life
- Pro-show:
- Inform the public of the real narrative
- Witness the choice to die
- People consider suicide as shameful due to post-9/11 patriotism
- Make people uncomfortable to push them to reflect on the moral dilemma
- War photo
- In the Iraq war and Vietnam war
- Pro-not show:
- Not family friendly
- Repeated traumatic images can dull emotional understanding
- Pro-show:
- Not publishing is deceiving the public of the consequences of war
- Challenge the dominant narrative of the good war
- War shouldn't be sensationalized
- War shouldn't be censored
- Hardware footage removes empathy
- Offend the viewer to make them feel accountable, to implicate them in the war
Ajitani Hifumi