Monday September 19, 2011

I’m learning that the New York Times has no filter when it comes to their pictures. The main picture on the front page is gory and downright disgusting and I think humiliating. If I were these poor people that are laying down dying I would not want my picture to be plastered on the front page of the most popular paper in the US. The story that goes along with the picture describes that protesters were shot in Yemen. Twenty people died in these attacks. Yemen is a hot spot for Al Qaeda militants but the US has been working with Yemen to decrease this threat. I keep looking back at the picture which was taken at a make-shift hospital and I come to realize how dirty the area is and they are just laying in dirt with open wounds.