Surprising answers to basic questions about death images
Posted by dmn_DeathCafe on Jan. 14, 2018, 8:22 p.m.
This is an excerpt from a fascinating new book on death images in the news. It overturns many widely held assumptions. By NYU Press, it's entitled, Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display the Dead. Turns out the tabloids don't show more death, plus other new insights related to class bias and nationalism. It also reveals how dedicated editors are to censoring death.