Editor and Publisher addresses the NY Times’s decision to run a graphic photo of a young victim of Tuesday’s Beersheva bombing on yesterday’s front page:
“We acknowledge that the picture is unusually violent and grisly. Our editors thought long and carefully before choosing it for the front page,” the paper said in a statement Wednesday morning. “They concluded that the picture was an appropriate way of depicting the horror of the latest violent turn in the Middle East, with 14 civilian victims and an apparent end to a six-month period of relative calm between Israelis and Palestinians.”
While most such photos draw attention to the macabre injuries themselves, this one seems to capture the larger pathos of the civilian victim, and the utter horror that is terrorism — the sign underneath her outstreached arms is an advertisement for buying a multi-use bus pass: ‘2 Free Rides with the New Punch-card’
