中國網(wǎng)站品牌欄目（頻道）
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Why didn't the photographer help? Why did the newspaper publish the photo? |
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The man in the picture has his back to the camera. He's desperately clawing at a subway platform, looking right at the train that's bearing down on him as he stands on the tracks. It's a terrifying, heart-wrenching image, and it's generating a lot of criticism for the newspaper that used it on its front page -- the salty, sensational New York Post. Why didn't the photographer help? Why did the newspaper publish the photo? "NY Post should be ashamed of its misuse of humanity for its cover photo of a man about to be killed by a subway train," one person wrote on Twitter. "When does cruelty end." "Snuff porn," another user labeled it. A freelance photographer captured the image Monday after someone shoved the man, 58-year-old Ki-Suck Han, from a subway platform near Times Square. Seconds after photographer R. Umar Abbasi captured the images, the train fatally struck Ki. He died at a New York Hospital, leaving behind a wife and daughter. "Doomed," the headline read. "Pushed on the subway track, this man is about to die." In its story on the incident Tuesday, the Post reported Abbasi was waiting on the platform when he saw the man fall onto the tracks. He said he ran towards the oncoming train, firing his camera's flash to warn the driver. "I just started running, running, hoping that the driver could see my flash," the newspaper quoted him as saying. "In that moment, I just wanted to warn the train -- to try and save a life," the Post quoted him as saying. Some critics, however, questioned Abbasi's motives. One Twitter user questioned why someones first instinct would be not to help the man, but instead to "snap a photo of him about to die and sell it to the NY Post." The Post declined to comment. Media observers wondered Tuesday if the newspaper had gone too far this time. (Read by Brian Salter. Brian Salter is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies) |
照片中的這名男子背對著鏡頭，絕望地用手抓住地鐵站臺，站在鐵軌上，眼睛直視沖他駛來的地鐵列車。 這一場景令人恐懼，也讓人揪心。報道辛辣而又愛嘩眾取寵的《紐約郵報》由于在頭版刊登了這一照片，也引發(fā)了人們對它的批評。 為什么攝影師不過去幫忙？為什么這家報紙刊登這張照片？ 有人在推特上寫道：“《紐約郵報》在頭版刊登了一張一名乘客即將被地鐵列車碾碎的照片，它應為濫用人性而感到羞恥。這種殘酷的行為何時才能終止？” 另一名用戶寫道：“太惡心了。” 本周一，58歲的韓基石在紐約時代廣場附近的一處地鐵站臺上被人推了下去，自由攝影師奧馬爾?阿巴西拍下這一場景。 攝影師R?奧馬爾?阿巴西拍下照片幾秒鐘后，地鐵列車撞向韓基石。他在紐約一家醫(yī)院去世，身后留下妻子和女兒。 標題寫道：沒救了。這個人被推下站臺，就快死了。 在本周二關于這起事件的報道中，《紐約郵報》報道說，當時阿巴西正在地鐵站臺上，他看到一名男子掉落了下去。他說他跑向駛來的列車，試圖用照相機的閃光燈提醒列車司機注意。 報紙援引他的話說：“我開始向那里跑去，希望司機能看見閃光”。 “當時，我只是想提醒列車，試圖去挽救他的性命。” 但一些批評人士對他的動機提出質(zhì)疑。 一名推特用戶質(zhì)疑說，為什么有些人的第一反應不是救人，而是“拍下這名將死之人的照片賣給《紐約郵報》？” 《紐約郵報》拒絕對此發(fā)表評論。媒體觀察人士本周二也開始提出質(zhì)疑，認為這次該報做得太過分。 相關閱讀 （中國日報網(wǎng)英語點津 Julie 編輯：陳丹妮） |
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Vocabulary: bear down on: 沖向 go too far: 走得太遠，做的過火 |
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