On the Cordoba front during the Spanish Civil War, a Loyalist fighter is killed in action in September 1936. Robert Capa—Magnum
End Game: Footage Of Real-Life Deaths Has Become A Disturbing New Online Commodity -- The Independent
Thirty years ago, television editors would have been responsible for death censorship. But, with the spread of video recording technology and the rise of user-generated video sites, the power now lies with the little man
One sunny November afternoon last year, in a suburb of Los Angeles popular with street racers, a CCTV camera picked up footage of an eruption of smoke 100m down the road, first thin and white, then thick and black.
Moments later, a car pulled over by its source. A man got out, holding a camera. The film he took – shaking and swearing as it goes – records one minute and six seconds of the aftermath of a nauseating car crash. There was no way for the filmmaker to know that inside the crumpled, flaming chassis was the actor Paul Walker, star of the Fast & Furious film series. The clip ends as the man runs to a safe distance down the pavement.
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My Comment: Robert Capa's "Fallen Soldier" published buy LIFE Magazine in 1936 is probably the first ever picture of someone being killed .... and it created an enormous stir then. Flash forward to today .... advancements in technology have made it all to easy to now capture moments of death from many of the world's war zones today. As for this blog .... I have a policy of not showing such videos .... for I have seen more than enough in the past few years.
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