My sentiments exactly (except for the last paragraph)
> For me, it's the fact that they were offered in a
> public auction format and
> for such an exorbitant price.
>
> It has a BLATANT APPEARANCE of trying to profit in a
> big way from the death
> of another. It's not like he had the only pictures
> of the crash and was a
> scant resource for documentary pictures, nor his he
> now offering them
> explicitly to the appropriate news organizations.
>
> He is hoping there is someone mentally-ill enough
> out there that will get
> their jollies from this sort of thing. If these
> pictures weren't already
> purchased by the news organizations (other
> journalists) then what
> journalistic value do they have at this point in
> time? They've had their
> fill, they need no more pictures of the same thing,
> so now he is hoping to
> profit from sensationalism and not journalism.
>
> If I started a bidding war for nude pictures of my
> wife on an auction site,
> that would have more ethical and moral value than
> this guy's auction.
>
> Tom C.
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