IP: Re:WTC - restrictions on taking photos?! -- best reason I have heard

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

From a IPer asking for anonymity:


> As a former Emergency Medical Technician allow me to shed some light.
> While very unfortunately the rescue effort has turned necessarily into a
> recovery effort, the point is that it IS still a recovery effort!! That
> means that there are still (hopefully soon) to be exposed human remains,
> partially decayed, probably partially nude given the height they fell
> from, as well as the euphamistic term, "body parts". News organizations
> have a standard by which films/pictures are chosen for display in news
> stories.
>
> For the whiners, let me be VERY graphic. A news camera man's job is to
> be constantly filming! Whatever he is seeing. And let the editors do the
> deciding on what actually is fit for respectful human consumption. When
> Air Florida crashed into the Potomac after hitting the 14th street
> bridge during rush hour, one of the first vehicles to actually arrive on
> the bridge was a news van. The camera started filming. What you DIDN'T
> see on the news (Thank you editors!) were the decapitated bodies that
> were sitting in cars that had their roofs torn off when the plan hit
> them. You didn't see completely separated torsoes of the unfortunate
> victims where the rear stabilizer literally tore them apart.
>
> The air speeds experienced from falling from heights as high as that
> building are not dissimilar to a mid air plane crash. When bodies fall,
> they are NOT only torn assunder by the impact/explosions, their clothes
> are usually stripped out by the resistance of the air. When there is
> fire and explosion, bodies are nude and charred with clothes burned off!
> AND YOU WANT TO TAKE PICTURES OF THAT???
>
> I am trying terribly hard to hold my temper on this one. Respect the
> families. They hurt enough as it is.
>
> Such a restriction is out of respect for the deceased and their
> families, and to spare the public from graphic images they really have
> NO right to see.



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