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If I had been asked I would have said that&nbsp;
it would be appropriate to be descriptive&nbsp;&nbsp;

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but not graphic. So that euphemism as a device,&nbsp;
as a writer's device, as a journalistic device&nbsp;&nbsp;

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is just as effective and in some&nbsp;
instances may be more powerful.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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But I think that the public has the right&nbsp;
to know but does not have the right to&nbsp;&nbsp;

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indulge and that becomes a difficult choice for journalists. I think what the problem with visuals&nbsp;&nbsp;

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in news is that we tend as journalists to want&nbsp;
to see how close to the edge we can go before&nbsp;&nbsp;

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someone stops us. Whether it's our bosses or&nbsp;
our conscience or the public and I think that&nbsp;&nbsp;

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in my experience in newsrooms news organizations&nbsp;
are constantly saying how much can we get away&nbsp;&nbsp;

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with. Now they may not say it quite so openly as that but that's always the implication. Can&nbsp;&nbsp;

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we put this on the air without grossing out our&nbsp;
viewers and I think that that has become part of&nbsp;&nbsp;

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the problem especially in a highly competitive era that we find ourselves in. In which the financial&nbsp;&nbsp;

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uh and audience underpinnings of support&nbsp;
have been taken away, mostly by the internet.