A Blurry Double Standard? A Photo from the Boston Marathon Bombing

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A Blurry Double Standard? A Photo from the Boston Marathon Bombing – PhotoShelter Blog

Should The Atlantic have blurred a gruesome image from the Boston Marathon bombing while images from foreign lands are published unadulterated?

via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2013/04/a-blurry-double-standard-a-photo-from-the-boston-marathon-explosion/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29

When it comes to newsworthy items, we should not allow ourselves to censor the flow of information. As Schneier opined in the aforementioned piece, “But we need to be vigilant not to weaken the very freedoms and liberties that make this country great, meanwhile, just because we’re scared.”