A media's distaste for violent images is not the issue here. Photographs very similar to these are published every day by tens of thousands of outlets around th

A media's distaste for violent images is not the issue here. Photographs very similar to these are published every day by tens of thousands of outlets around the world. The issue is that these photographs are coming from an unknown source and not many editors are apt to trust unknown sources randomly emailing with conflict images these days. Source: I hire and direct photographers in war zones professionally.