John Sowell of the Roseburg News-Review e-mailed the following to HBO: (Photographer Robin Loznak) me that AP in New York cropped the photo on the right to remove some of the offending organic material. I always thought that it was up to the member media outlets to decide how they want to use a particular photo. I can remember once having a class assignment where we each had to choose which photo of Pennsylvania Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer we would publish in illustrating the 1987 story about him removing a gun from an envelope, holding it out and putting it to his head and shooting himself. There was a full range of photos from that press conference sent over the wire that day and the AP didn't feel it was their job then to make that decision for its members. Interesting that today, in a photo that was disturbing but a lot less graphic in that way, the AP didn't want to send the full-frame shot. HBO thread here. Photo (warning disturbing image) here.

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