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An image of the actual charred remains, and audio of Komarov as he died? I love NPR, but this is bordering on snuff. It seems far more graphic than is necessa
by kogus 11y ago
An image of the actual charred remains, and audio of Komarov as he died? I love NPR, but this is bordering on snuff. It seems far more graphic than is necessary.
- brudgers 11y agoPersonally, I appreciate the author's focus on telling Komorov's story with Komorov at the center and the corpse as meteorite knifed the romantic abstractions that let me be comfortably unempathetic when reading about people dying.
- zymhan 11y agoFor me, imagining knowing that your parachute won't deploy as you hurtle toward the earth is pretty good at making me empathize with someone's death. I don't need to the photo to haunt me as well.
- brudgers 11y agoThe interesting thing as I was replying was that it's the caption that matters. If it was "commissars inspect moonrock" suddenly it would be science. With the caption, the photo creates the potential to empathize with the people who might have made better decisions...if not the actual decision makers, the people in uniform are a good representation. The audio is consistent with the tradition of space flight documentary. "Houston we have a problem," doesn't always work out to a Hollywood ending. None of which is to diminish someone's reaction. There are many news stories I forgoe because I don't want to go to the place they are likely to to take me, too.
- gdubs 11y agoHad a similar thought – definitely qualifies as graphic content and could have done with a fair warning. Tough image to confront first thing in the morning.