Le Monde to stop publishing pics of terrorists to avoid 'glorifying them in death'
1. Usual caveat is usual: separate thread for MaxViz.
2. Serious props to the Le Monde editorial staff. Makes me want to stand up and bellow out La Marseillaise.
Quote:
France’s best-selling national newspaper has declared it will no longer publish pictures of terrorists who have carried out atrocities in a bid to avoid “glorifying” their actions.
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/french...them-in-death/
We should relegate terrorists to the obscurity of their own infamy
An article by the French philosopher, author and film-maker, Bernard-Henry Levy, translated by The Guardian, on why the ban should exist. Here is one phrase:
Quote:
... we are taking the shortest route to the banalisation of evil, which we have long known to be a grave danger.
(Later) There is in this unending, often pathetic, chronicle of horror a way of neutralising the conscience; and, on the pretext of showing us the face of the criminal, a way of blinding us to what makes it so revolting.
Link:https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...analising-evil