There is no question that we can point to photographs that have changed public opinion. The reality, based on my experience, is not quite so simple. The former Seattle Times executive editor David Boardman, now the dean of Temple University’s journalism school, agrees, but adds that this should be done only “with the permission of a surviving parent.” The former dean of UC Berkeley’s graduate school of journalism, Ed Wasserman, argues that media, for reasons of taste and decency, have unthinkingly been “withholding from the public the pictures of the dead,” a practice he thinks should change. Publishing photographs showing the grisly sight of slaughtered children is the latest answer from those seeking to move the public and politicians to act. What can the press do to help stop mass shootings? This question haunts many journalists who struggle through the ritualistic cycle of news coverage that has become all too familiar after a massacre.
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