Friday, February 29, 2008

Clash of media cultures

Take a look at this story and photo in the New York Times. The photograph, taken by Reuters, shows a Palestinian infant who was killed in a rocket attack being buried. It's tragic, but it's also an illustration of clashing media cultures. In the Arab world, images of death are routine. In the United States, they are unusual. Yet the Times, by publishing such an image, finds itself straddling both cultures.

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