Sleeping Beauty (October 1992 | Volume: 43, Issue: 6)

Sleeping Beauty

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October 1992 | Volume 43, Issue 6


The pictures of the dead children raise a troubling issue. Your various justifications for printing these pictures are full of high-minded rhetoric about historical attitudes toward death and what it can teach contemporary Americans. It can be argued, however, that what you are doing illuminates not a historical trend but a modern one—exploiting the tragedies and misfortunes of others for personal gain or entertainment.