ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a historical and theoretical framework for understanding amateur visuals as source material for the established news media's war reporting. It includes deliberations on the way non-professional images circumvent the traditional censorship on pictures of death, and the particular challenges and opportunities they pose to the news media. The chapter discusses the methodology behind the content analysis of the news coverage and present 'visual framing analysis' as a tool to analyse the newspapers' approach to the images. It conveys the major findings of the content analysis, complemented by qualitative analysis of exemplary visuals and articles. The capture and subsequent death of Libya's ruler of 42 years, Muammar Gaddafi in Sirte 20 October 2011, represented an important event, politically and historically, to the international community. It concludes on how boundaries are pushed in the mediation and remediation of death.
