[lbo-talk] Snap Judgments

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Kelley
> 
> Snap judgments
> 
> Did iconic images from Baghdad reveal more about the media than Iraq?
> 
> (duh?)
> 
> By Matthew Gilbert and Suzanne C. Ryan, Globe Staff, 4/10/2003
> 
> Dynamic images, present and past: (from top) A statue of 
> Saddam Hussein is 
> pulled down in the center of Baghdad; a jubilant crowd climbs 
> the Berlin 
> Wall before it's razed; a lone protester faces down an array 
> of tanks in 
> Tiananmen Square; workers jump off a dismantled statue of 
> Lenin in Riga as 
> Latvia cedes from the Soviet Union.

This list is missing a few important images, such as an IDF bulldozer
crushing a US woman protesting the barbaric collective punishment of
Palestinians.  It is not what is shown but what is missing that is
trully revealing about the media - that they are nothing more than a
pliant government propaganda tool.   But that is not very revealing
after Goebbels and Stalin,  is it?

Wojtek