'Reality of war' laid bare in publication of graphic images of MH17, Gaza dead

By Tim Elliott
Updated July 26 2014 - 7:18pm, first published 12:28pm
How the story was reported in The New York Times on Saturday, July 19.
How the story was reported in The New York Times on Saturday, July 19.
How the story was reported in The Australian on Saturday, July 19.
How the story was reported in The Australian on Saturday, July 19.
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Readers of The New York Times were greeted last Saturday by an unusual sight – a dead body, on page one. The photo, by Reuters' Maxim Zmeyev, was of a victim of the MH17 plane disaster, and showed a pair of legs underneath a sheet of plastic, on top of which had been placed a red flower.

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