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Debate over beheading photo

One of the biggest stories of 2015 will easily be ISIS and its rampage through Iraq and Syria and efforts to defeat the radical group.

via San Diego Union-Tribune: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/feb/27/isis-photo-beheading-front-page/?#article-copy

“I felt – and feel – very strongly that we should not have used the still image from the Islamic State group’s video,” Photo editor David Poller said. “My argument is we are helping that group’s propaganda effort when we show kneeling victims in orange jumpsuits moments before their deaths. Photos of the victims’ families in Egypt reacting to the news of the mass killings were available.