Friday, June 20, 2008

Don't labour the point...

Ok so I promise this blog will not turn into a war against The Age's photo department... and this I guess is more of an ethical pondering than a photoshop issue.

I'm wondering about the decision-making process behind publishing this image online in Husband murdered wife on honeymoon dive, coroner told [and by default, I guess, my own ethics in re-publishing it here?]...



Caption: A diver poses for a picture, unaware of the drama unfolding behind as a dive instructor tries to rescue Tina Watson, whose body lies on the sea bed.

Do we usually publish this kind of thing? Or is it just that I'm personally uncomfortable with this image being published?

Help me out here gang...

1 Comments:

At 2:36 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well to make you feel better, my own reaction was sicker.

In my war against only photos of dead brown bodies being printed, I thought, 'Well, at least she's probably white!'

But yeah, inappropriate.

 

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