Even Muammar Gaddafi deserved a private death | Mark Lawson

The bloody images of the Libyan dictator's final moments violate principles of taste and privacy the media should not abandonWestern foreign policy in recent years has combined with the democratisation of filmed images to create a stark new problem for media organisations: the existence of images of regime-changed leaders before, during and after the moment of death. Scenes of the hanging of Sadd...
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The bloody images of the Libyan dictator's final moments violate principles of taste and privacy the media should not abandon.

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