Outrage at shocking pictures

I don’t know if it’s a first for the Guardian Newspaper, but its wrong profoundly wrong.

Today I searched for stories of interest about Osama Bin Laden and the every changing narrative coming from the White House and I literally stumbled across gruesome pictures of three dead unidentified bodies shot and killed in the compound where Bin Laden was killed. Although, it states what is to come I missed it as am sure many others did too as the initial into was about pictures of the compound.

We don’t know these individuals and presumably neither does the Guardian. They may be criminals, wanted for war crimes, they may not be, we simply don’t know. And even if they were is it right to show such gruesome imagery?

It’s true that the wild west that is the internet is full of graphic and gruesome imagery, but this is the Guardian Newspaper which we all believe conforms to the very highest standards of journalism.

The Guardian should ask it self but one question. If those individuals-criminals or non criminals-were British, would they show those types of pictures? I doubt it too. So why are these individuals any different?

A very low day for British journalism.

Simon Woolley