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Should the news media start showing photographs of the attackers rather than the victims?

Asked by NerdyKeith (5489points) May 11th, 2016

I read an interesting comment on Pink News in response to an article about a young gay man who was brutally beaten by an homophobic attacker. There where no photographs of the attacker but there are photographs of the victim and showing how badly beaten he was.

But this makes me wonder, should the media name and shame the attackers? Now I know obviously there are exceptions to this when the media will show photographs of attacks. But this is usually for more extreme cases (such as cases of terrorists e.g. Anders Brevik and Bin Ladin etc).

But for the everyday violent aggressor (be they motivated by homophobia, sexism or racism); should they not be publicly shamed with a photograph on a news website or paper?

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