The Treatment of Images in 11-M Terrorist Attacks. Terrorism and Violence in the Press

• Main Author: Dra. Emma Torres Romay
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de La Laguna 2006-01-01
• Series: Revista Latina de Comunicación Social
• Subjects: mass media; press; freedom of speech; pictures and violence; limits; ethics; attacks; 11 M; terrorist; Madrid; press photograph; journalism; tabloid; online newspapers.
• Online Access: http://www.ull.es/publicaciones/latina/200603torres.htm

In this paper we want to analyze the pictures publishing in the Spanish and international newspapers before the Madrid terrorist attack, March, 11. With this research we get some ideas about freedom speech limits: the respect of the privacy and, in special, the respect of the pain. At the same time, we´ll remark the importance of the photography in the press and their communication power. For this research we used the March, 11 and 12 newspapers of most important Spanish editors and the digital edition of international press.