Activist lawyer Pu Zhiqiang told Hong Kong's Ming Pao Daily News the new security chief had a "less brutal" image than Mr Zhou, which is beneficial for implementing the rule of law in China.
"It's an incredibly brutal image — too violent for the Post today," he said.
There is an extremely graphic, unflinchingly brutal image of a dying man.
The department is inextricably linked with the brutal image of an August night a half-century ago, when police officers wielding billy clubs pummeled anti-war protesters during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
"The Spierigs have conceived [a society] in impressive detail, a brutal mirror image of our own, with 'respectable' yuppie vampires, and a crazed, blood-starved underclass," writes our own Andrew Pulver.
Zealously milking the moment for maximum reality TV effect, CNN correspondents played and replayed the brutal image; first, as the silent backdrop to an interview with a Richland school board representative, then as a frame-by-frame analysis to evaluate the girl's "responsibility".
So it leaves nationalism for others to remake in their own brutal image.
My favorite horror stories are those that pile on brutal image after brutal image, with less regard for story than for planting ideas in your head that you can't get out.
It includes among its brutal images an extended dramatization of Phillies manager Ben Chapman repeatedly yelling "nigger" and other hateful epithets at Robinson.
