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Originally Posted by Charlatan
How does choosing *not* to show these images squash freedom of the press. The press continues to have every right to show them. Nobody has removed that right from them. They have chosen *not* to show the images.
To use the old saw: you don't shout fire in a movie theatre when there isn't a fire. It amounts to reckless mischief.
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But couldn't the media's reluctance to publish what many see as a newsworthy item (the pictures all this comotion is about) be seen by some as self-censoring? Certainly publishing the pictures in a manner to incite uproar is wrong, but a fear to publish them due to a political backlash is a problem to.