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Currently the top story on the front page of The Brooklyn Eagle's website contains a graphic photo of a murdered man hanging out of a car. The headline reads: "Grisly Murder on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn", and we were sort of shocked to find an actual photo of the "grisly murder" right there below those words. The story simply reads:
The body of 22-year-old Jamal Oughterson (right) hangs out of the back seat a car on Grand Avenue near Atlantic Avenue early Saturday morning after being shot several blocks away. Police said Oughterson had agreed to meet a friend on Fulton Street near Franklin Avenue when a gunman fired at him. He was whisked away from the scene by a driver who evidently intended to take him to the hospital, but the car was intercepted by authorities. Oughterson died while en route. The officer at left was at the crime scene.Probably wouldn't have been their top story unless they had that "exclusive photo". What do you think, did they do the wrong thing by running this (there's a screenshot after the jump since eventually it won't be on the front page anymore)? We're sure family and friends of the victim would think so.
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americans are so weird about these things. people die, that's what it looks like. big deal.
if people actually saw the reality of violence of our world published on the front page the way that the rest of the world does, we would probably have a completely different culture. I think these are exactly the kinds of photos that should appear on the front page.
It's not classy, but you shouldn't expect class from every paper. I think it's probably sad for the family, but I don't think it's a news media's role to prioritize family considerations over news reports. If it puts a (and I used the next word with all due respect) face on the crime, it's more real. And that's worth more than the chance the killer will revel over the public announcements of his work.
We've become both brutalized by the violence in our world and isolated from it at the same time. Since we're still going to be brutalized as long as it happens, we might as well not be isolated from it.
Every publication, usually through an ombudsman or other, has to assess the usage of a photo such as this, particularly in deciding in where it lies. I don't know what their thought process was, but I wouldn't have used this photo. Surely, it's an "exclusive" but that doesn't mean you use THIS photo.
Besides, when was the last time you saw a deadbody in a photo on the front of any newspaper (and I mean that ACTUAL body)?
#4
When an angry mob in Iraq killed private contractors after an ambush, burned them, mutilated them, and hung the charred body parts over a bridge. It was the cover of the Times and it was one or two years ago.
I find it amusing in a culture of "Reality TV" that people can not handle a photo like this.
The Osbournes/I Love New York/Survivor/Who Wants to Marry A Millionaire. This is what passes for "Reality" in our culture.
This photo IS reality...More of this kind of photo-journalism is sorely needed in America.
Yawwwnn...anyone have any NEW beheading or execution videos?
About 20 years ago, after some mob guy got shot in Brooklyn, both the Post and the Daily News had cover pictures of the stiff, with his cigar still clenched in his mouth.
Carmine Galante aka "Lilo," "Cigar" (February 21, 1910 – July 12, 1979) was the boss of the Bonanno crime family, a New York City Mafia crime organization from 1974 to 1979.
Withthe times, it was't close up. Though, I'm not surprised abou the DN/Post.
So it's bad if they do it but okay that you are running it? Huh?
We as Americans are oblivious to the whole reality of the world around us unless it affects us directly. The news is sanitized for public viewing and political correctness. That’s why I get my news from the BBC and other news media outside the USA. It is more blunt and to the point. Less censorship. They are not afraid to cover it all. Print it I say with moderation.
I think it's appropriate to run with the photo considering news media around the world often runs gory and explicit images worse than this.
i wish the papers in the us would report more raw stuff. instead of the disneyfied stories.
Who cares is the brooklyn eagle is in the right-- are YOU in the right? That should be the question. You could have run this story with a link to the site rather than the photo. Are you imune to the moral question because you are the one asking it?
bad way to end a night.
I'm still waiting for some news organization to have the balls to show us what downtown Manhattan really looked liked on 9/11. There were body parts and blood splattered all over the place and we never say any of that on the tube or in the papers.
#15 - right on. it seems as though the gothamist staff often has little clue as to what they are doing. and really, this is the big moral issue of the day? thanks for letting us know, gothamist. it's called reality, just like most of the posters here have already stated.
Does anyone else sense the irony of this post? I see a few of you do.
Here's wishing that any major news media in US had the guts to show us 1/10th of the carnage our tax dollars have wrought on Iraqi civilians.
Instead we have insensitive sensationalistic local coverage everywhere CNN/FOX/MSNBC love to take the myopic local crime turned national tragedy route much more blatantly than the Eagle. But given that it's the Eagle and they barely cover anything except the Heights it hardly seems fair to lump them in with any mention of anything major in any way. They are just kinda clueless to start with...
That said, the issue isn't whether I want to see this gruesome scene in my local neighborhood booster paper (and frankly it doesn't really bother me in particular but I'm also not really looking) but rather that if it were my relative (maybe the Eagle assumes that this man's relatives don't read their paper? read between those lines...) then I'd be pretty pissed that some crappy litter liner newspaper was exploiting my dead brother, son, grandson in order to get a few more notches on their circulation belt and thus raise ad prices for whatever crap someone is trying to sell this week in the Eagle.
Fuck all of you people who say it's not a big deal, because I knew this guy. We went to high school and it so fucked up to see him like this.
I KNEW JAMAL, WE WAS A VERY FUNNY DUDE AND IT IS VERY SAD TO SEE HIM LIKE THAT. I WAS JUST INFORMED THAT THEY HAD PICTURES OF HIS BODY ON THE FRONT PAGE AND THAT IS JUST WRONG. ALL OF YOU PEOPLE THAT ARE TALKING THAT BULLSHIT ABOUT WHO CARES AND IT IS JUST ANOTHER DEATH THAT IS SOMEBODY'S CHILD DEAD AT 22 YEARS OLD AND DIDN'T GET THE CHANCE TO FULLY ENJOY LIFE. JUST PICTURE IF IT WAS ONE OF YOUR RELATIVES SHOT AND KILLED IN THIS MANNER ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE NEWS PAPER. I WISH HIS FAMILY THE BEST