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Originally Posted by texxasco
I agree with StanT. That woman is somebody's relative. I think posting that photo before she is indentified, and her next of kin notified, it is in very poor taste and shows a lack of respect for the dead woman...and her familiy as well. Reality sells papers...and that's the bottom line. I know I would be highly pissed if that were my mother, and THAT was how I found out about her death.
~~The news can be reported, and be done in a tasteful way. That picture should never have made print, or the internet....at LEAST until the family, if any was notified of her death.
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Originally Posted by texxasco
~~...at least until the next of kin for the dead have been contacted...so the family doesn't have to find out about the death of a loved one by seeing them online or in a newspaper.
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I just want to make sure we're looking at the same photo. This one, right?
I have really good eyes. I also have photoshop, which lets me zoom in to my heart's content.
First, I don't believe that what you're giving congrats to StanT for is what he meant. I believe he meant it was using the image of a dead person to sell papers, not that the person should be identified first. StanT will correct me if i'm wrong, which i'm certain i'm not.
How in the hell can you tell me that the body in that picture is, IN ANY WAY, even REMOTELY identifiable? Anyone? I guess you could from the face- oh wait, it's face-down. Maybe the clothes- no, can't even see what type of clothing, it's just a generic brownish garment, not even anything on it to signify what type of shirt or pants. Hell, I can't even see if it's a one-piece dress/mumu thing or if it's shirt and pants. You can't see the arms or hands, you can't even see if she's wearing a watch. You can't even tell what sort of footwear she's wearing.
And where the hell did you get the impression it's female? It just says "the body of a victim". Do some of you have super sex-sensing powers? Or is it because you believe females are weaker and more likely to be killed in a disaster?
Bottom line is, there is no way you could possibly convince anyone with more than 2 brain cells in their head that the picture in question could in any way be used to identify a person. There's no way. It couldn't be done. It's too small, too grainy, and there's nothing to see. You can't even see the head to know what the hair color is.
This is a very poor argument for having not used the picture. For me, it's no argument at all.