tomorrow published in the herald sun

smoking is bad - we all know that.
but the rate about young smokers in the age between 12 and 14 is in australia increasing.
all schools have a smoking ban (since the 30th of july victoria is under a whole smoking ban. smoking is not allowed in pubs, restaurants, public places, etc.).
but the young people are still smoking. and because there is ban at schools, they are smoke on the trainstations. some young students get interviewed. they said, they need a cigarette to start the day.
the herald sun took photos from them. saw kids, sitting at the trainstadion, mostly in schooluniforms, smoking.
but should the pictures get published? because it is very probably, that the students get banned from the schools, when they are in the herald sun - smoking and in school uniform.
this was the issue in the conference today.
to published means to set the young students under the risk to loose theire schoolplace. and a lot a family members would call the herald sun and complain about it very angry.
on the other side, it´s legal. and they doing defenitly something wrong. the photographer talked with them before (well, with the most of them), they know, that someone did photos from them.
while they were discussing about it, i was thinking, how it would be in germany. first of all we have no school uniforms, so they wouldn´t know, on which school they are. and if - it doesn´t matter, i guess.
but basically you´re sitting between to chairs: protecting young kids (because they don´t know what they doing) or show the truth (but you can show it in very different ways).
herald sun decided to publish it. but they will use the pics, where you cannot see the emblems from the uniforms.
well, i don´t agree. pictures yes. but not a picture where you can indentify the person (take the photo in front of the sun, or show only the back from the person, or you can take a picture, where the swap cigarettes and you only can see the fingers...). basicly you need a photo. a photo where you can see two things: young people and they smoke. it makes the article authentic (like: yes, it´s true, you can see it with your own eyes). but you don´t need the faces for that.
and here is line. and on the other side is the herald sun. they doing it (like die bild in germany). of course they were talking about it, if it would be a risk for the kids, but they never thought not to show the faces. they need that. you are getting more attention with that. in my opinion it´s not attention, it´s voyerism, which the public wants to get served. and that is not serious and objective journalism.
will see if they are really publishing it tomorrow. and i am interested what response they will get.