Why Use News Photos of Motorcylist Run Down by Careless Driver?
To the Editor: I have to say I am nothing short of appalled by your representation of Thursday night’s motorcycle accident in your April 18 issue. I suppose I could go on and on about how inappropriate many of those pictures are, starting with the front page. Is it really necessary to show two people jaw-jacking in front of an obviously fatal accident? Consider the fact that the one gentleman is wearing a Calvert Hockey jacket-he obviously doesn’t belong anywhere near the scene, and certainly the police had further investigations to conduct involving the crime scene…but yet you advertise this man’s presence to the public? But the front page is no match to how I felt when I actually opened the paper to read the article. How can you possibly, in good conscience, show a picture of his dead covered body lying on the ground? I find that so morbidly disgusting that I’m short for words to even describe it. And I’ll admit, I hadn’t known Mark for very long. But one thing that I can say, just
