Sometimes there is a clear distinction between right and wrong. Other times, the decisions we make are difficult because the lines become blurred.
Conclusions can only come after hours of discussion and analyzation.
Our job as journalists is to report the news, to bring the reader into the event and to report as fairly and realistically as possible. The decision to run the photograph was not whimsy, haste or single-sided. We evaluated the photos we shot, and took into consideration all the said questions. We ran the photo because the protest was an event that happened in a public place on campus and it is the journalist's duty to cover these events. The decision was not based on shock value, the decision was made because of the protesters' message and our duty to educate the reader about the event.