As a subscriber and contributor to High Country News for many years, I have to say I was shocked by the graphic descriptions of animal cruelty in the poaching article (“Digital Shadows,” June 2020). I happened to be browsing the print edition over lunch. Bad timing. The article describes admirable teamwork by the people who brought these perverted killers to justice, but it doesn’t do much to explain why the criminals acted as they did. I would’ve appreciated some warning about the graphic content, much as broadcasters do before airing stories containing descriptions or imagery that could be upsetting to some people.

Louis Jaffe,
San Francisco

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Graphic content warning, please

by Louis Jaffe, High Country News
July 1, 2020

<h1>Graphic content warning, please</h1> <p class="byline">by Louis Jaffe, High Country News <br />July 1, 2020</p> <p><span class="s1">As a subscriber and contributor to <i>High Country News</i> for many years, I have to say I was shocked by the graphic descriptions of animal cruelty in the poaching article (“<a href="https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/52.6/north-wildlife-catching-a-band-of-wildlife-killers" target="_blank" data-linktype="external" data-val="https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/52.6/north-wildlife-catching-a-band-of-wildlife-killers" rel="noopener">Digital Shadows</a>,” June 2020). I happened to be browsing the print edition over lunch. Bad timing. The article describes admirable teamwork by the people who brought these perverted killers to justice, but it doesn’t do much to explain why the criminals acted as they did. I would’ve appreciated some warning about the graphic content, much as broadcasters do before airing stories containing descriptions or imagery that could be upsetting to some people.</span></p> <p><em><span class="s1">Louis Jaffe, <br />San Francisco </span></em></p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=187838">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">Graphic content warning, please</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/52-7/letter-to-the-editor-graphic-content-warning-please/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=120880&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/52-7/letter-to-the-editor-graphic-content-warning-please/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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