Posted on 03/13/2025 1:08:42 PM PDT by Red Badger
What happened:
Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci won a prestigious journalism award this week for his iconic shot of President Donald Trump moments after he was nearly assassinated during a 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pa. The unforgettable image, featuring Trump surrounded by Secret Service agents, his fist raised in defiance under a crane-mounted American flag as blood trickles down his cheek, was named Photo of the Year on Monday by the White House News Photographers Association.
Crucial context:
This is the same photo journalists denounced as "dangerous" propaganda, or "photoganda," in the days following the failed assassination attempt. Axios spoke with "multiple" media photographers in July 2024 about Vucci's photo and other enduring images from the Butler rally, many of whom "worried privately in conversations" that the photos might help Trump win the election, but wouldn't deepen the public's appreciation for heroic journalism. One photographer from a major news outlet warned that it was "dangerous for media organizations to keep sharing [Vucci's] photo despite how good it is." Another complained that the award-winning photo would be used by Trump's "propaganda machine" to portray him as "a martyr."
Analysis:
Journalists would never say these things about a (purely hypothetical) photo of a Democratic politician looking awesome and courageous after surviving an assassination attempt.
Bottom line:
Professional journalists want Democrats to win.
Around here that is a water is wet kind of statement.
Absolutely...still makes my heart do double time...
Writer was talking about the award.........
Propaganda is contrived. That’s a picture of what really happened.
AXIOS——who and what they were was clear from the beginning.
Joseph Pulitzer - what a schmuck!
AP is unworthy of that photo!
The Lord works in mysterious ways. Trump was protected by a breastplate of righteousness.
Like so many others I was watching it as it happened. Definitely a heart stopping moment. I really need a poster of that for the shop wall.
No matter who you are, you got to admit that is one iconic picture for the ages.
He ought to get a free Chicken Dinner as well, A Pullet-Surprise..................
Ping!................
What still gets me....is how sharply he turned his head “at that moment”...he usually turns very casually....almost in slow motion.
You were waiting with that one, weren’t you? ;-)
Years..............................😏
They produce Marxist propagandists, and without exclusion that is who they hire.
Years.......................
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Was it worth the wait?
Well done, btw.
:)
I’d almost given up hope!....................
He wasn’t, that “prize” is and has been for over 80 years!
Absolutely, SPOT ON!
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