Being Responsible Media
While most news networks avoided showing the entire sequence of events leading to Saddam Hussein’s death, showing only up to the part where the noose was placed around Mr. Hussein’s neck, videos of the entire execution did surface on the Internet. Grim as the footage may be, there were those who still took delight in sharing the video.
With the proliferation of broadband networks, information can hardly be suppressed nowadays. But questions nag about the ethics of such information sharing. Sensationalism still sells, even at the cost of taste.