[icernet] 'No gory pictures please, this is terrorism'

[Arul Selvan]

Jonathan Fighel, Israeli expert on counter-terrorism, who flew in and out of
Mumbai on Monday, didn’t have much to offer on the Indian situation, but he
certainly offered interesting tips on media coverage of terrorist attacks
during his lecture.

“Never shoot close-ups of limbs and terror-stricken faces. As far as
possible, get wider angles of the scene of violence. A bomb blast lasts for
a millisecond, an attack from terrorists a few minutes, but the impact of
close-ups of the victims’ mutilated bodies lasts much longer. People are
intelligent enough to understand when they are told a blast took place."
He said the coverage by the American media in the first two days after
terrorists flew planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New
York on September 11, 2001 should serve as a role model for the media. 

Source:
http://www.mid-day.com/news/city/2003/february/45099.htm