The media difference

When I first arrived here in France, I noticed the difference between the media in the U.S. compared to the media in France. It started out with such things like commercials or musical shows of top-less girls dancing or showering. Something that would never be shown in the US especially during Prime Time. Then it moved on to the disaster in New Orleans, where here they would show all the dead bodies lying in the streets. I thought to my self that first time, they don't do that in the US out of respect right? Well the more and more it shows things like this I feel that it's a better way of understanding. Even though I wouldn't want to see nor have anyone else see any dead bodies of anybody I would know. But today, during prime time, there was this show on, called the 60 images that marked the French. It started out with showing things that I didn't get to see in the US. Such as Janet Jackson's pierced nipple during the super bowl, the face of the child that Michael Jackson was suspected of molesting. All these I remember being blurred during the media in the US. Then it got to things such as the Twin towers being flown into. I know after the first few days the media in the US stopped showing any kind of graphical images. But tonight I got to see the planes running into the towers. But nothing got to me as much as the images of the people falling out of the towers. Not only did the cameras follow the people all the way down, but they also got the close ups too. That really got to me. I don't know why the medias views are so different nor do I know which one I see as right. Because on the first hand I don't like the media having total control of what we see or don't see but I don't like having to be so into the scene of seeing real people die.