Practising restraint

IN Media Watch Briefs | 28/03/2012

Al-Jazeera has decided not to air the footage which shows Mohammad Merah's deadly Toulouse shootings. The decision came after requests from the families of the victims, the French president and other French officials. The channel said that the video does not add any information that is not already in the public domain and is against Al-Jazeera's code of ethics. Merah, who killed seven people, is said to have sent out the USB memory stick to the channel containing 25 minutes of video and a letter claiming responsibility for the murders. (Guardian)

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