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As the attacks were unfolding on the Capitol, a steady stream of images poured\xa0onto our screens. Photo editor Kainaz Amaria tells us what she was looking for\u2014and seeing\u2014that afternoon.\xa0And she runs into a\xa0dilemma we've talked about\xa0before. In\xa0December of 2009, photojournalist Lynsey Addario, in was embedded with a medevac team in Afghanistan. After days of waiting, one night they got the call - a marine was gravely wounded. What happened next happens all the time. But this time it was captured, picture by picture, in excruciating detail. Horrible, difficult, and at times strikingly beautiful, those photos raise some questions: Who should see them, who gets to decide who should see them, and what can pictures like that do, to those of us far away from the horrors of war and those of us who are all too close to it?

Episode Notes:

To hear Kainaz Amaria talk more about the filter, check out:\xa0

this post on ethical questions to consider around the sharing of images of police brutality\xa0and\xa0her interview on On The Media about the double-standard in many U.S. newsrooms when it comes to posting graphic images.\xa0

Special thanks to Chris Hughes and Helium Records for the use of\xa0Shift Part IV\xa0from the album Shift

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