A PAIR OF ROAMING cows couldn't be corralled, so cops in Sunbury, PA shot them.And journalists documented the entire scene. The image above graced the front page of Sunbury's Daily Item. Some people complained.
Should the newspaper have run the image of the animal's death on the front page? Is it the job of the newspaper to highlight what happened, or should the newspaper save the gratuitously graphic image for inside the paper?
8 comments:
Well, all the paper did was document what really happened. Why should they censor the truth? A 'disturbing image' disclaimer could help, though.
BUT WHO SHOOTS A COW?! COULDN'T THEY LASSO THEM OR SOMETHING?
-Caitlyn
Actually, I'm from the Sunbury area (Lewisburg to be exact) and I would be surprised if they DIDN'T run this picture on the front page. It's such a small area and literally nothing happens there. Usually at the beginning of deer season, which is also a holiday, the front page has a picture of the biggest capture of the day, with another booklet inside showing all that was caught that day. I know, so hick-ish right? So that's at least forty pictures of dead deer in one day.
So yeah. That's my two-bits on the story. Personally I hate how they choose to do something like this, but what can I expect?
Katherine Albin
Honestly I think them putting an image on there would get more people to read it, rather than turn them away. So I think it's a good idea.
Did anyone watch the video? You can hear the gunshot during an interview. It's creepy.
Click on the line that says journalists documented the entire scene.
- George (the recently converted vegetarian teacher)
I don't believe that a bunch of cops with their cars and tranquilizing guns and whatever other technology could not gather TWO cows. I'm sure they were just trigger happy, action hungry, and bored with the lack of people to shoot in boring ole sunbury. The real question is, did they eat them afterward? What a waste of cow.
It makes me think of those countless films and shows portraying the stereotypical incompetent cops fumbling over things trying to throw a burlap sack over a pig or some other docile, harmless animal.
I agree. They had no other way to deal with the cows besides killing them? I think that's ridiculous.
I don't think they should have had the gunshot sound in the video. The reporter definately should have waited until after the shots were fired to interview. Maybe I'm just really soft when it comes to animals, but hearing the shot really freaked me out. I think that was irresponsible on the journalists part.
Kim Wood
I live 20 minutes from Sunbury...Scumbury as I like to call it.
Sarah Schu
One, the cows were going to be slaughtered anyways. It seems like a waste of time and effort to try to nicely corral them so they can get shipped off and use some gas to live another hour or two to die in essentially the same manner behind closed doors.
Two, this is what happened. Not showing it is basically lying by omission.
And three, if you look above and I'm not too far from the area myself, no one there cares. So considering the readership, I don't think this was such a big deal to them.
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