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Summary Of The Boston Photographs By Nora Ephron

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Have you ever read “The Boston Photographs” by Nora Ephron? It is an article about deadly pictures from a 1975 fire in Boston being posted in newspapers world wide. Their was a big uproar from readers stating that it is insensitive to use death to sell newspapers. Ephron disagrees with the people here as she feels that newspapers should report on life events and death is a big life event. She doesn’t want death reported on for the shock factor or to teach people a lesson she just feels that people should know what is going on in the world and the fact is that death, both natural and accidental, happens everyday. In this essay Ephron also implies that photojournalism has a much bigger impact than written journalism in cases like death.

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