The Herald-Leader’s “Behind the Headlines” blog asks:
Some readers commented that they didn’t need to see the images to know that equine sports can be dangerous. Action News 36 photographer Lauren Ashe wrote: “I feel, as a fellow photojournalist and horse enthusiast, that showing a picture of an animal fatally injuring itself is about the same as showing a picture of a bullet entering someone’s head. What exactly does printing this accomplish?”
Ashe’s comment reminded me of Eddie Adams’ photo of a South Vietnamese colonel executing a Communist Viet Cong prisoner. The picture, which shows the exact moment the bullet enters the prisoner’s head, earned Adams a Pulitzer Prize in 1969 and is credited with helping turn American public opinion against the Vietnam War.
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