--- From: <seesaw8@private> To: <declan@private> Subject: This news story was sent to you by request Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:33:49 -0400 A news story has been electronically sent to you at the request of the sender listed below. The story originally appeared in post-gazette.com, the web site of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The sender supplied the following information. A reply to this message will be directed to the e-mail address supplied by the sender. Name: A Politech Reader E-mail: seesaw8@private Message: Simply points out something many on the Net have known for sometime, namely it is difficult to keep digitized information under wraps. The website Ogrish.com., is cited, which has of course been mentioned in the past on Politech. Click here to access the story: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03271/226452.stm --- News media may withhold gruesome images, but Internet sets them free Sunday, September 28, 2003 By Lillian Thomas, Post-Gazette Staff Writer They die over and over on continuous loop, the journalist's throat slashed again and again, the bank robber blown up by the bomb locked to his body time after time. The graphic video and still images of dead and dying people that mainstream news organizations choose not to display inevitably find their way to the Internet, where they can't be killed. Some can be legally challenged, but even if a site is shut down, the image rarely goes away. And there's a vigorous argument over whether instant access to such images is good or bad: Are they examples of stomach-turning excess or honest depictions of a disturbing world? There's little disagreement, however, over the Internet's role in eroding the mainstream media's reign as gatekeeper -- the media's decisions to withhold images from their viewers no longer mean viewers won't see those images [...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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