AP (via Captured Photos): Why the AP published images of a fatally wounded marine
September 8th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Press freedom and ethics
The Associated Press (AP) has explained its decision last week to publish an image of Lance Corporal Joshua M. Bernard, a US marine fatally wounded in combat in Afghanistan.
According to reports, the soldier’s family did not want the photo in question to be published.
The AP has also confirmed it received a letter from US defence secretary Robert Gates asking the agency not to publish it.
Now the agency has explained its decision – including the following from the AP’s director of photography, Santiago Lyon:
“AP journalists document world events every day. Afghanistan is no exception. We feel it is our journalistic duty to show the reality of the war there, however unpleasant and brutal that sometimes is.”
Tags: Afghanistan, AP, conflict journalism, defence secretary, director of photography, Joshua M. Bernard, Lance Corporal, Lance Corporal Joshua, Lance Corporal Joshua M Bernard, Robert Gates, Santiago Lyon, The Associated Press, United States, us, war
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October 19th, 2009 at 9:58 am
[...] The proposed ban came partly in response to the AP’s recent decision to publish images of a fatally wounded marine. [...]