No one likes to wake up to pictures as gruesome as the one that ran on the front-page of the Daily Lobo Wednesday. I responded to numerous callers who admonished me for running such a graphic photograph in the student newspaper. Many said they shouldn't be forced to look at such graphic images when picking up the newspaper.
I am sympathetic to their concerns, but because I shared the same revolting reaction to the photograph, I knew the newspaper was obliged to run it. We owe it to readers to report the news and show them that the war we are engaged in is not sanitary. Many on both sides of this conflict have brutally killed in the name of freedom and religion.
The decision to publish the photo does not mean that I am opposed to the war. I am just opposed to filtering information and inaccurately covering the world we live in.
Iliana Lim¢n
Editor in chief
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