Posted on 08/13/2006 2:53:12 AM PDT by xhrist
Great cartoon. Amazing how much you said without using words.
I published it on my web site.
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HAA! I was JUST thinking about this picture while working the graveyard tonight.
sorry about the spellin my kid drew it when he was 14...
< Because that photo turned the tide on public opinion on the Vietnam war doesn't equate it to catching the media fabricating photos. >
Funny. I didn't read the cartoon that way.
What I saw was a "play" on the media trying to use photos to turn the tide of public sentiment (as the original was instrumental in doing) that may be backfiring by the emergence of fraudulent photos.
IOW, they've tried so hard to make it happen (fraudulently) that thsy have hurt their own cause.
"I was there too from 2-66 - 6-68. I will accept your statement about Marines with the exceptions of Murtha and Carville."
LOL....well not all current and former marines are bad apples.
12-22 1966 to 01-13 1968...Chu Lai MAG 12
Nice work, technically. But IMHO that image doesn't serve the point that the doctored photos damage "the media." It's excruciatingly difficult to get me to identify with "the media" as victim. And the trouble with that particular photo is that it portrays the executioner in a very bad light whereas the story behind the photo is that the "victim" was a terrorist murderer who had killed some people the "abuser" cared about.I don't even like the term "the media" particularly, since IMHO the problem is less the medium than the genre of nonfiction known as journalism.
The problem we-the-people face is not that "the media" might lose credibility but precisely the fact that too many people are too credulous of journalism. It is a great thing if people learn to think about what they are not being told.
The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing . . . It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. - Adam SmithEven without photoshopping, photos are inherently partial truths based on limitation of the field of view and of the instant a photo captures an image. You really know nothing until you have a description of how, when, where the photo was taken. And to what extent the existence of the photographer influenced the event portrayed.Half the truth is often a great lie. - Benjamin Franklin
It is positively stunning how journalists assay to whip up a frenzy of condemnation of Israel for attacking Hezzies who are using the civil population as human shields - and doubly so since those human shields are for positions the Hezzies are using to launch rocket attacks on civilians in Israel.
It's even more ridiculous than the systematic reporting of only the bad news from Iraq - and then claiming that our government should cut and run because the news from Iraq is all bad.
Cute!
Very nice. My quibble, not that you want one, is that in light of half-century more study of the problem than your son had, I have the opinion that journalism causes "liberalism," rather than being led by it.My rationale is that journalists, being unregulated, have found the way of using printing presses which yields the most fun and profit. And that way does not include internal ideological competition. Reagan's "Eleventh Commandment" is, "Thou shalt not criticize a fellow Republican." The establishment which calls itself "objective journalism" enforces a strict pecking order:
- journalists are not to be pecked, and if you attack a journalist's objectivity then you are not a journalist.
- People who are not journalists but who promote the idea that talking (e.g., second guessing) is more important than doing) may be pecked lightly but are to be given favorable PR and called good things like "moderate" or (before the term was run into the ground) "liberal." These include:
- Celebrities
- Professors
- Trial lawyers.
- Rich people who use their money for "liberal" causes.
- Poor people - provided they do not get uppity and try to actually accomplish things and/or espouse middle class values.
- People who do things instead of just talking are a threat to the idea that talking is the important thing. Therefore they are to be pecked, and second guessed, mercilessly. Such people are naturals for the Republican Party, and are to be labeled Right Wing Extremists and other perjoratives. They include:
- Businessmen, esp Walmart
- Police and the military
- The middle class generally, particularly white people.
- Serious Christians.
Thank YOU Sir....
I still have a recuring dream...that I have reinlisted...
But at 59....thats not possible
Semper Fi
And, last I heard, the South Vietnamese general, and it has been quite a while, so he may now no longer be among the living, was running a successful restaurant in Vienna, Virginia.
A better analogy of the establishment media's lemming like rush toward the cliffside, with readership of News On Dead Trees down from previous post-television lows of only 2 percent of the public to about 0.5 percent in the past five years might be a less stark variation on the following image:
Picture Keith Obermann, deliberately oblivious (unike the young man who looks more as though he has just finished his course in Television Journalism and then spent the summer reading Godless by Ann coulter) to what will happen when the wad of lead propelled into his skull by a self-detonated chemical reaction, says something like:
"False but accurate... that will show me!"
(By the way, this similarly iconic representation of suicide is most highly unrecommended as a proper way to use a handgun for that purpose. That's especially true if it is of small caliber. This method is generally considered to be a high risk for self-lobotomy, rather than suicide... though the caliber of handgun in the image does appear pretty hefty, and may be loaded with a shell of the kind that spreads out nicely and would then remove a cone of head on the opposite side of the entry wound.
"Eating your gun," and using the thumb to aim at severing the brain stem and spinal column connection behind the tonsils is often more messy, but considered much more highly effective at self-termination.
The cartoon doesn't make sense.
The fake photos aren't taking aim at the media. The media is not the "victim" of them.
A depiction of a bad guy who accidentally blows himself up would be more accurate.
Yeah, "Blogoshere" shooting down "MSM Photoshop" might work.
Ooops, "Blogosphere" sp.
Over the top, IMO, to use that photo to illustrate the sentiment.
Also, the analogy is slight skewed, since while the photoshopped images certainly discredited the MSM, that was not the intent.
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