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Does the Media’s Right to a Story Outweigh Human Decency?

What's more important: our right to know or a family's right not to suffer needlessly? (Photo: commons.wikimedia.org)

That’s a question that’s sure to strike up controversy. On the one hand, there is awesome value to a free press in a democratic society. That holds true in war time, as the American people have the right to know just how things are going for their loved ones in harm’s way. Knowing how their government interprets the successes and failures of the war effort (and how that gels with media coverage) is a right the citizenry possesses. Keeping up with the views of our elected officials is how we decide whether they should remain in office or be on the average Joe circuit, where a loan until payday can help them from coming up short now and again.

But there is another side to the issue of whether photos of mortally wounded (now deceased) Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard in Afghanistan should have been published by the Associated Press. His family begged not to have their son represented in such a state. The argument is that not publishing pictures of him after his legs were blown off by a rocket propelled grenade would have been the decent thing to do. … click here to read the rest of the article titled “Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard | Should His Photo Have Published?”