The Newport Daily News finally gets around to thinking about the Fallujah photos:

The Daily News did not run any of the photographs out of Fallujah that day. In fact, we did not even discuss the possibility of running them, as our general policy is not to run graphic or gruesome photographs. This is in keeping with our sensibilities - and those of our readers - as a community newspaper.

But when I looked at the photographs, particularly one that clearly showed children celebrating as the charred remains of two bodies hung behind them, I experienced the sheer power of those images. I felt disgust, almost to the verge of being physically sick. I felt angry. I felt frightened. And I felt sorrow.

I do not know that I could have felt all of those things from reading a written account of the scene. I still cannot say that we would have - or should have - run the photograph that day. But in hindsight, I wonder if our policy is too prohibitive. Much like we do with local photographs, we should at least debate the merits of publishing such photos from the national or international wires before deciding not to run them.

>Graphic content intended to inform, not offend, readers [The Newport Daily News, via Romenesko]