Front cover of today's Times.

[MarshPhantom]

Just disgusting, huge photo of David Haines with his executioner prior to being beheaded.

Made me feel sick, there really is no need for this kind of coverage, it's not as if we don't know what has happened.

[lost in espace]

I find it to be disrespectful to the family personally.

[BlackLabel]

And it's exactly what the Islamic State nutters want - we play straight into their hands.

[Godalmighty83]

The event is a tragedy, the story is news the picture is nothing but propaganda, to display it such a way on gives it credence and will only encourage similar acts.

[mikef]

s3fella said:

A decent newspaper with a bit of class would have had a totally black front page

I'm guessing you don't work in the print industry?

[Jasandjules]

MarshPhantom said:

Just disgusting, huge photo of David Haines with his executioner prior to being beheaded.

Made me feel sick, there really is no need for this kind of coverage, it's not as if we don't know what has happened.

However, this makes the UK public disgusted. Which then lends public support to taking action. 3

[Murph7355]

tenpenceshort said:

Massively wide of the mark. In a supposedly intelligent newspaper, do you really need an image like this writ large to explain what is going on and how horrendous it is?

Rag tops? Probably, though I imagine they'd be too busy concerning themselves with the Kardashians or some such. But this sort of thing to me is unnecessary and as someone else noted, it's what the perpetrators want. They want to spread fear and loathing amongst us all.

[Kinky]

MarshPhantom said:

tenpenceshort said:

Who put a bee up your arse?

Wrong time of the month I suspect

[grumbledoak]

It's the top story on Google News, picture too. What of it? It's clearly news.

And why pick on The Times?

[greygoose]

Kinky said:

MarshPhantom said:

tenpenceshort said:

Who put a bee up your arse?

Wrong time of the month I suspect

He probably couldn't conjure up a be-headlines joke like he was criticised for in the dog home arson thread and had a sulk.

[don4l]

s3fella said:

tenpenceshort said:

You're wrong. A decent newspaper with a bit of class would have had a totally black front page and the story on page 2.

Initially, I agreed with 10PS.

However, I agree that a totally black page would reflect the public mood.

I'm coming to the conclusion that we should turn the desert to glass (nuclear option), but I know that I am wrong.

I do think that we are going to see British feet on Iraqi soil again.

What the hell have we got ourselves into? Blair (and most Guardian readers) should be hung, drawn and quartered.

[MarshPhantom]

grumbledoak said:

It's the top story on Google News, picture too. What of it? It's clearly news.

And why pick on The Times?

Because it was The Times that my O/H bought back from the shop.

[mikef]

don4l said:

I agree that a totally black page would reflect the public mood

Before a third person trots this out - if you try to do do that, you over-saturate the paper with ink, it disintegrates in the presses. So not something you are going to see, whatever the public mood

[Uncle John]

My delivered copy didn't have that, must have been a v2.

The front page was all about Scotland.


Edit to add, agreed you don't need an image like that in front if you first thing. A little low brow.

[Murph7355]

mikef said:

Before a third person trots this out - if you try to do do that, you over-saturate the paper with ink, it disintegrates in the presses. So not something you are going to see, whatever the public mood

I don't think anyone was suggesting literally all black....

If they can do it in Brail, why not here (as an example)?

[Murph7355]

Uncle John said:

...
The front page was all about Scotland.....

Altogether more depressing!

[extraT]

I seem to remember- and a quick google tells me so- almost every UK paper "went black", with a B&W picture and a few words. This would have been far more fitting for the poor soul.

I never understand why newspapers feel the need to print images of people in their final moments (or in the case of Marc Vivan Foe (Cameroon footballer), actually dead with his eyes still open. I still cant get that image out of my mind.

[mikef]

Murph7355 said:

If they can do it in Brail, why not here (as an example)?

And that's just about the shame of being knocked out of the World Cup; not in the same league of seriousness

[Randy Winkman]

Unless I'm imagining things it was on the cover of the Telegraph. Not sure since I saw it at my parents.

[extraT]

extraT said:

I seem to remember- and a quick google tells me so- almost every UK paper "went black", with a B&W picture and a few words. This would have been far more fitting for the poor soul.

I never understand why newspapers feel the need to print images of people in their final moments (or in the case of Marc Vivan Foe (Cameroon footballer), actually dead with his eyes still open. I still cant get that image out of my mind.

That should have read: "went black" reporting Diana's demise.