Are we seeing everything we should be seeing?

CJR wonders. According to NBC photojournalist Tony Zumbado, we aren't seeing the half of it.

[MSNBC reporter Alison] Stewart mentioned that many of the images Zumbado had shot of the dead and dying "couldn't" be run on the air. Zumbado added that there was much more footage that he could have shot but did not, precisely because he knew it would never make it on the air.

.... Obviously, no one wants to view, say, the death rattle of an infant perishing from dehydration. But if the nightmare unfolding right now at the convention center is the result of negligence, or even of triage being practiced by government responders, and if a little graphic film might arouse both those responders and the larger citizenry, is not that a public service?

Someone, or several someones, made the decision to leave those people dying at the convention center to their own devices. Should the television press let those persons off the hook -- in order to spare a queasy public from graphic images?

We know our own answer to that question.

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