There Won’t Be Blood: Gun Violence and Visual Censorship – Reading The Pictures

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There Won’t Be Blood: Gun Violence and Visual Censorship – Reading The Pictures

In light of the consecutive mass shootings in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton, we discuss how gun violence is covered by U.S. media in terms of what we see and what we don’t see.

via Reading The Pictures: https://www.readingthepictures.org/2019/08/gun-violence-visual-censorship/

To show or not to show? When does publishing photos of carnage become exploitative, gratuitous and pornographic, and when does it become critical information and a prompt for change?