Most showed restraint

IN Media Watch Briefs | 18/11/2015

What call should a newspaper take on picturising a story about a gruesome incident involving a child? In the case of the Hyderabad schoolchild who died after her head was caught in a lift, most papers used pictures of the school or a passport pic of the victim. The Deccan Chronicle had a picture of the mother with the child's body, but it was the New Indian Express which showed the poorest judgement by carrying a page one pic in Hyderabad and Chennai of the child's body sticking out of the lift.

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