But to hide from that fact, to pretend that our lives are only worth defending if the action photographs well, is slow suicide. So we face the fact that accidents happen, and we work to correct them. We face that our enemies violate the most basic rules of war, forcing their own civilians to stand between them and incoming bullets. And we face the photos, forcing ourselves to answer the question of whether we are right, rather than simply letting others answer in the negative for us. We face the fact that AP and AFP and Reuters don't care why or how so many civilians are hurt while gunmen operate among them, since Hizballah's script is so much more photogenic than an IDF press conference explaining ballistics and targeting angles.Check it out.
So I took my stroll. You probably won't be surprised to learn that out of the approximately 1000 images I've clicked through over the last week or so, there were a lot of pictures of refugees -- refugees sleeping in schools, refugees fleeing in cars, refugees being evacuated by kind and gentle non-Israel soldiers -- but not one of them Israeli.
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Post of the Day - Where are the Photos? (AbbaGav)
AbbaGav has a great post about a subject I've been wondering about. It's a subject that has barely been touched upon, even in the blogosphere (though it got a bit of a mention at least).
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Thanks for the link and the much coveted "Post of the Day" award. I'm relieved you were able to extract something from that post. I wrote it at about 3am fueled by annoyance more than coherence. But I guess if the monkeys were using their typewriters to comment on this situation and the media's bias, even they'd be right more often too.
ReplyDeleteI always find the 3am rants to be the best - they're not tempered by the blogger. Ya know?
ReplyDeleteYour are Nice. And so is your site! Maybe you need some more pictures. Will return in the near future.
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