The New York Post stretched the boundaries of poor taste to their limits Wednesday by splashing an image of the moment just before an American journalist was executed by Islamic militants across the tabloid’s front page.
The Islamic State, a militant group that has overrun certain parts of Iraq and Syria, released a video Tuesday that purported to show the beheading of James Foley, a photojournalist who went missing in Syria in 2012.
U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press that the video appeared to be authentic and said the victim was Foley.
The Post’s Wednesday cover can be viewed here, though WARNING: the image is graphic and disturbing.
Won’t look. Death porn is repulsive.
I am so sorry about this poor man’s death, and I won’t oblige the murderers by looking at their “production”.
Edit: Won’t oblige the Post, either. Rupert Murdoch can go f himself.
I won’t look. The idea that they would exploit that image to sell newspapers is nauseating enough. We’re already sufficiently outraged just by the news of the beheading. We don’t need to insult the family of the victim by showing the image on the front page of a national newspaper. Wow.
Of course they did. They know they just spiked their readership again.
Wonder if they’d print it if it were Rupert Murdoch that was beheaded?
Shock is the only arrow left in old media’s tattered quiver…I imagine Comcast/NBC execs are already in discussions with a certain anchor to breastfeed on-air when she returns.
They’ve also got to keep the fear and rage going. Can’t let the populace become too complacent and tolerant of “others.”