The Editor's Log
Taking Bambi down
Are there different taste standards for newspaper content and Web content?
Michael Fuchs, reporter, blogger and one of our key Web guys, pointed out this story from Digtriad about a photo of a mountain lion dragging a deer. Embedded in the story is a link to the actual photo with the wording: "WARNING: graphic images."
Now, it doesn't seem all that graphic to me, but it's doubtful that we would print it in the paper because it's the sort of thing that would offend a reasonably high number of readers. (If it was a scene from downtown Greensboro, though, we would!)
On the Web? Of course, you can add in the link. But do you need the warning? Especially when you tell the reader what it is they'll be looking at? I'm thinking no, and we didn't. As our story says, "It's a photo making the rounds on the Internet that purportedly shows a mountain lion dragging a deer in western North Carolina."
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