In the course of this conversation their is something that is being overlooked.
If it is halacha, minhag or even a legitimate chumra. I dont think we should care about what Others think. This goes for milah, metzitza, and not printing pictures of women. (of course there is a (relevant) side discussion whether some of these are legitamte hakpadahs However this shouldnt detract from the main issue at hand)
Hamevaser never prints pictures of women, Haaretz didnt have a story last month that there were no women. That isnt the issue. I dont know if Z-Dad agrees, but it should go without saying that any paper has every right to come out with any fardreita chumra they want they can avoid pictures of women, reshaim, all goyim, all animals, treif animals, fruits or apples
(BTW Trust 789, When I see pictures of apples in frum newspapers, I cringe. Ditto, frum websites. It isn’t “faltche frumkeit”. I don’t cringe for myself, since I love apples).
That is not what happened in this instance. They could have easily avoided pictures of women. Ami, Mishpacha Yated and Hamodia all managed to report on the story without pictures of women and without raising the world’s ire. The literal editing women out of history is what the issue at hand is