Exam 2 Chapter 21

Question 1

What is the dilemma

Answer 1

sensitivity v. responsibility to inform

whether to publish the photo of the dead soldier being dragged through the streets or not

Question 2

what is primary reason to publish

what is primary reason not to publish

Answer 2

great news value

grisly and extremely distasteful

Question 3

one thing is quite certain….

editors who chose to publish were not doing so because they were printing what they thought

Answer 3

This was not a case of ghoulish editors yielding to tawdry sensationalism to sell more papers.
readers wanted to know, but instead what they needed to know

Question 4

Campbell decided to use the photo. what else did he do

Answer 4

printed in color, beginning above the fold with soldiers body below
-included a note on why he published it “shape reaction of policymakers as well as the public”, “fullest understanding of what is happening”

Question 5

the virginian pilot generally does not put photos of dead bodies on front page, how was overriding this ban defended ?

Answer 5

pictures news value overrode the ban

-symbol of an age, transcended particulars of the moment