A really powerful image on today’s front-page of The Washington Post. There are though, as always, questions about the use of photos of children in strife from developing countries. Would we use such images of children in our newspapers? Do we apply a different standard for Western children? You can read a little more about this debate in this AlertNet feature (scroll down to Ethics, Pictures and the Media). 
frontpages:
Pakistani floods could further hurt unstable nation as military focuses on aid

A really powerful image on today’s front-page of The Washington Post. There are though, as always, questions about the use of photos of children in strife from developing countries. Would we use such images of children in our newspapers? Do we apply a different standard for Western children? You can read a little more about this debate in this AlertNet feature (scroll down to Ethics, Pictures and the Media). 

frontpages:

  1. Pakistani floods could further hurt unstable nation as military focuses on aid

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