"The Snuff Times"

Jeff Jarvis laments, rightly, I think, the NYT's liberally (no pun intended) peppering its news coverage with photos of dead people:

In my time as an editor, we thought long and hard before putting a picture of a corpse in the newspaper -- not so much to protect the audience from an indelicate image but to respect the dead and not to exploit their image.

As we've discused here lately, we don't need editors protecting us from news; that's not the issue. But as we've also discussed here, when you choose to use -- or not use -- photos such as these, you are necessarily making a political decision. And using images of dead children on your front page is not something that should ever be done lightly. So is The Times just as quick to run pictures of the dead killed by Palestinians as Israelis, by Iraqi terrorists as American soldiers?

The answer is "no."