EastGlencoe t1_irs8q37 wrote on October 10, 2022 at 5:21 PM

I was in Thailand over the end of the year holidays many years ago and there was some terrible fire at a nightclub in Bangkok. The local news briefly showed images of charred corpses of the victims of the fire. Shocked the shit out of me at the time. That and the boxes of cigarettes included graphic color pictures of what lung cancer looks like. None of which is to defend CNN; just that the standards over there are a little different.

blumpkinpandemic t1_irsgqi3 wrote on October 10, 2022 at 6:14 PM

Here in Canada our cigarette packs have those disturbing pictures on them. The tongue cancer one is the worst 😬

r-reading-my-comment t1_irsh6eb wrote on October 10, 2022 at 6:17 PM

Their movies blur out any weapon pointing at a person though.

I saw a movie over ther and a sword would get blurred out only when you could see the person it was pointing at.

Nicholas-Steel t1_irsxrci wrote on October 10, 2022 at 8:10 PM

> That and the boxes of cigarettes included graphic color pictures of what lung cancer looks like

That's been standard in Australia for probably 20 years now? There's been efforts to go a step further with plain packaging (which will still include the graphic imagery).

Partly_Dave t1_irtgby8 wrote on October 10, 2022 at 10:22 PM

Newspapers and TV in Thailand often show pictures of road accident victims (usually motorbike) at the scene. Covered, but with visible blood.