A major Venezuelan newspaper is butting heads with the government over the right to publish graphic photos on their front page.
El Nacional, one of the country’s oldest newspapers, has been ordered to stop publishing certain types of photos. According to the Associated Press:
A court ordered one of Venezuela’s leading newspapers on Tuesday to stop publishing photographs depicting blood, guns and other violent images and warned it could face a hefty fine for having published a photo of bodies in a morgue. Venezuelan officials say the ruling involving El Nacional — one of Venezuela’s oldest newspapers and a fierce critic of President Hugo Chavez — aims to protect children and adolescents from violent images, but opponents called the move politically motivated censorship. In its ruling, the court said it prohibited the newspaper from publishing “images, information and publicity of any type that contains blood, guns, alarming messages or physical aggression images that incorporate warfare content and messages about killings and deaths that could alter the well being of children and adolescents.”
