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Old 22-07-08, 01:15 PM
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Jesus. That's so awful.
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Personally, I don't think the photographer is any better.
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Assuming that it was a press photographer Anne, then they graphically report the news, allowing others to see it, I see no blame for them,I have been tying to remember the photograph of the burning child in Vietnam, whose publication changed the tide of public opinion regarding the war, I dont believe we can censor such things because they are unpleasant, but perhaps that wasnt your point?
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Assuming that it was a press photographer Anne, then they graphically report the news, allowing others to see it, I see no blame for them,I have been tying to remember the photograph of the burning child in Vietnam, whose publication changed the tide of public opinion regarding the war, I dont believe we can censor such things because they are unpleasant, but perhaps that wasnt your point?
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Very true, a press photographer has a duty to show the good and the bad - however, I suspect that there would have been more mobile phones with cameras on that beach than professional photographers with a job to do.
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Indeed this is awful.
Surely to goodness the police should have closed off that part of the beach and erected some sort of temporary covering.
These children died in a tragic way and deserve some sort of respect, no matter who they were.

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Okay it's sad two kids died. And? My cousin drowned years ago. I can assure you the beach wasn't closed. People didn't go home. You shake your head. If you're a parent you pull your kids out of the water.

This was a public beach likely full of people. I bet many barely knew anything had happened. It happened at 2pm? Lunch time right. I wonder how many had wandered off to eat and came back hours later.

The photographer wasn't there when it happened. He would have had to drive to the beach.
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The two bodies should have been taken away and not left on the beach. Had it been non Roma children would the same thing have happened??? I doubt it.

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The only way I can cope with the implications of that photograph is to believe that the seated couple, sunbathing, were super-imposed. If the photo is genuine, then I cannot believe that they were Italians.
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