Mainstream media reported about the horrors of Vietnam. Independent journalist were allowed to document these atrocities. Neither of these things happen anymore.
The US government made very sure to never repeat the mistakes of Vietnam. They use propaganda regularly to brainwash people into thinking our armed forces are the good guys. Journalist are now embedded into our fighting forces and they are tightly controlled
There is no independence in main stream media anymore. It was always bad, but now it is ridiculous. All major media leans either heavily conservative or somewhat conservative. There is no real progressive media, at least not anything that could influence the masses.
The wealthy have definitely won this battle.
Photo ops. If someone were to get a similar pic of a Gazan toddler still on fire you better believe it would be on all frontpages tomorrow (as it should be). Then again, Israel is working overtime to make sure this doesn’t happen. That’s why they directly target journalists in the first place.
We have images of Shaban al-Dalou being burned alive in his hospital bed
JFC…
There’s also the images of Ward Jalal al-Sheikh Khalil directly in the article itself. She wasn’t killed, but everyone else around her including her mother and two siblings died in the flames…
Being real, when it comes to the photos only, the Vietnam photo is not a usual thing. In terms of how it conveys the horror of the moment, what images we have of anti-palestinian atrocities just aren’t as effective as that one.
There are pictures and footage of people burning, but they just aren’t as compelling as photos.
The images of children dying of starvation are more compelling, but the entire world has seen so many images of starving children that they don’t have the same impact they might have fifty years ago.
People are just worn out from the horror of it all. The emotional well isn’t dry, but the rage caused by the ongoing genocide can’t be sustained.
pictures aren’t as compelling as photos? What are you talking about?
You know, I had realized that you missed the emphasis and came back to explain, but if you don’t understand the concept in the first place, that’s on you
Those are synonyms.
They’re used in different places to keep from using the same word over and over again
The video of the girl walking through fire is horrifying. Then you learned she lived and it’s like oh thank goodness!
Then they interview her and she is bawling while discussing her dead siblings and my heart sunk.
Then they asked about her mother and she started describing how much she loved her mother. Her mother is dead too. I don’t know how to describe how I feel now. This hollowed out, desperate pain. Impotent rage.
