Sunday, January 24, 2010

N.Y. Times public editor on Haiti body photos

It was hard to look at some of the pictures of suffering and death caused by the earthquake in Haiti — and impossible to turn away. Some readers were offended at these scenes and even more graphic pictures on the paper’s Web site, calling them exploitive and sensationalistic. Just as a picture of a grieving mother told the story of the tsunami in 2004, the disturbing images of the last two weeks have been telling the story of Haiti, and The Times is right to publish them. As Patricia Lay-Dorsey, a reader from Detroit, put it, Winter’s “camera was my eye as much as it was his. And every one of his photos told the truth.”

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