Mardi Gras Sex Assault Photo wins Press Photographers Award for 2001 (not Sept. 11 images)

NPPA Website and Plastc.com ^ | April 1, 2002 | Wacko Liberal Judging Panel

[sneakypete]

and the pictures are not on the same level as Napalm Girl. (IMHO)

You are right. The "Napalm picture girl" was made famous because it was based on a media lie. One that helped get the main liar,Peter Arnette,a Pulitzer Prize.Remember how it was reported she was fleeing from a American bombing attack that had burnt her clothes off her? Wrong. It was the South Vietnames Air Force who were flying the planes dropping the Napalm,and the reason the village she lived in was being bombed is because the NVA and VC was hidden in the village amongst the villagers,and shooting at South Vietnamese army soldiers.

As for the prize-winning lie,it was "we had to destroy the village in order to save it",supposedly said by a U8 Army Major to Arnette in a interview about the attack. There was on US Army Major anywhere around,and Arnette made the whole thing up. The Pulitzer Prize committee is aware of this,but refuse to pull his award because they don't want to admit they made a mistake.

[sneakypete]

How do we know this is a assault,and not a case of the woman instigating it,and doing it of her own free will? Am I the only one who has seen women do things like this?

BTW,I am NOT saying this is the case,I am asking.

[CyberAnt]

And they think that photo is worth some kind of award - how sick is that??

[codebreaker]

Good point.