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A picture is worth a thousand words. I can understand not wanting to upset the families of the deceased, but as analog points out, I think this particular picture is very unlikely to lead to anyone identifying this person as a family member. To me, the image is a much more abstract expression of the reality in New Orleans...and if you don't want to know what's going on in the rest of the world, I don't really understand why you would read the newspaper in the first place? Movie times or TV listings?
For the people who say that they can understand the situation in New Orleans, or in general the full impact of the text based news without imagery, I would have to ask why are there *ever* pictures in newspapers, why do people keep photoalbums instead of diaries describing their holidays and family events, why do scientific papers incorporate graphics and plots instead of text-based descritptions, etc. I believe there is sufficient evidence that we do identify and are more directly affected by images than by text. I personally would prefer the news carried more graphic representations of news...I wonder what people would think about the Sudan, for instance, if they saw pictures of what was going on over there on a daily, or weeky basis. Or to use examples from this thread...what if they had to look at the homeless in LA, or NY, or wherever?
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