We don t publish photos of uncovered bodies because we know that such photos of local residents are especially sensitive. We also are sensitive to pictures of covered bodies, for that matter. When a newsworthy person dies and we cover the funeral, we try to be sensitive in our choice of pictures. Inevitably, we will not please every reader. Even if we had the money, we wouldn t buy the pictures that the paparazzi sell to the European tabloids and to the National Enquirer.
Most American newspapers don t pay people to tell a tale.
They do pay local free-lancers to help cover school sports and community news, but they don t pay the newsmakers to give them a story. The photographers who follow celebrities are quite unlike the photographers you see at community events. In Europe, they are especially aggressive. There are, to be sure, such people in the United States, even here in Florida, I am told. A few years ago, when Diana visited Walt Disney World with her sons, there were all sorts of photographers present.