At least when I see it, they usually say, "we want to warn you, these pictures are graphic."
That is enough for me. They should be showing the pictures.
I don't mind when there's a warning but yesterday's NYT front page was uncalled for. And today's front page of the Seattle PI has a montage of maybe 100 dead bodies, including dead babies and nudes.
That level of disrespect is astonishing and, frankly, racist: they'd never pulled that if this had occurred in a Western Nation.
Hell, here at FR people had to hunt around the internet to find pictures of people jumping out of the WTC on 9-11. The NYT certainly never had the naked bodies of New York fire fighters on the front page.
I almost can't believe I'm pinning it on racism but the only thing I can think is that these papers believe Asians don't have to respected in death because they're not white.