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NickyS
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NickyS posted:
This is by no means a new thing ... often agency feeds contain very graphic material and broadcasters take a view about what can and can't be shown ... mostly it's a taste and decency issue rather than any other form of censorship.
Personally I come from the school of showing as much as possible but imagine if those pictures were shown at say 6pm ... you just couldn't because of the children who were watching.
Also imagine what you would feel like if they were your relatives that you were seeing.
It's actually interesting to watch news reports from say the 70's and they actually show much more graphic scenes than would ever be shown now - I'm thinking of bits of bodies being swept up after bombs in Belfast etc. The world has changed.
Personally I come from the school of showing as much as possible but imagine if those pictures were shown at say 6pm ... you just couldn't because of the children who were watching.
Also imagine what you would feel like if they were your relatives that you were seeing.
It's actually interesting to watch news reports from say the 70's and they actually show much more graphic scenes than would ever be shown now - I'm thinking of bits of bodies being swept up after bombs in Belfast etc. The world has changed.