Picture this: You’re the managing editor of a newspaper. Around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, you receive pictures of Cho Seung-Hui, the gunman who killed 32 people and then himself on the Virginia Tech campus Monday. Cho holds pistols in some of the pictures and points a gun to his head in another.
Newspaper editors debated publishing Cho photos from video
Vivid images draw complaints from many readers.
Friday, April 20, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 10:39 a.m. CDT, Saturday, July 19, 2008
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