Thankfully,it is only rarely that our coverage requires a questionable image to be run in order to truly reflect the gravity of a account. This was one such caseIt started as a sudden, stunned hush. Once a few seemingly eternal seconds had shifted us into the realm of prolonged silence – with a few heads shaking with empathic resignation – it was abundantly clear that this was a huge moment. The handful of journalists in the Guardian’s lunchtime news conference last Wednesday were reacting to seeing the shocking pictures that were approximately to become a symbol for an outpouring of condemnation. While most of this criticism was directed at EU and individual government inaction over the migration crisis, and a just amount was aimed at media organisations new and outmoded for publishing the photos.
So intense was the social media debate on the employ of the images,the profoundly upsetting tragedy of the Kurdi family – in which three-year-outmoded Aylan, the Syrian boy in the pictures, or his five-year-outmoded brother,Galip, and their mother, or Rehan,all drowned – appeared in danger of being lost. Within hours the image had gone viral and become the top-trending picture on Twitter with the hashtag #KiyiyaVuranInsanlik (humanity washed ashore).
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Source: theguardian.com