For members of the public, viewing the New Zealand video is a personal choice. I offer no advice. But some evil needs to be seen to be believed
I was baffled. At that moment, I was sitting comfortably in my in-laws’ basement, watching hockey highlights. Maybe that was why my mind jumped automatically to assuming she was talking about sports. Had there been a gruesome injury to a player? A broken leg on the ice or basketball court? I opened Twitter to check for news and found it. It wasn’t a sports injury. It was a series of confused and scattered reports of a shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand. A mosque had been attacked.
For members of the public, viewing the New Zealand video, or others like it, is a personal choice. I offer no advice. The video is horrific. But there is room in education and public debate for the horrible — sometimes there is necessity. Certain kinds of evil need to be seen to be believed. How many of us couldn’t stop watching the footage of the World Trade Center being hit on Sept.
That’s not to say that the news media mustn’t behave responsibly. Such material can be fairly viewed as part of reporting, but should not be carelessly disseminated . This ought to be self-evident, especially to journalists, but an Australian television news channel, Sky News Australia, was taken off the air in New Zealand after airing graphic footage of the attack. News organizations have a duty to report, but also to filter. Failure in that regard should rightly be criticized.
In one way, no. Humanity is generating astonishing amounts of new photographic and video content every day. To choose one small example, literally hours of video is added to YouTube every single second of every day. It is simply impossible for any company to vet that kind of content in real-time, at least using human staff. Many of our tech giants, including Google and Microsoft, have attempted to use automated systems to filter out one particularly evil form of “content” — child pornography.
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