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War, Conflict and Disaster in Broadcast News
June 8, 1972Phan Thị Kim Phúc
• Brought home the horrors of the Vietnam war
Phuc’s photo
Controversy
• In the United States people don’t want to see death.• We’re much more squeamish than other parts of the world
PHOTOS ARE POWERFUL
• USED FOR EMOTION
o Jfk
o World Trade Center
• Oklahoma City
USED TO RALLY THE NATION
Gave Americans the resolve to enter World War II
Haiti, 2010
Some American newspapers would not show these photos
Jumping from the World Trade Center
One of many people who jumped from the Twin Towers rather than await their fate.
Ethel Freeman, 91
Freeman died at the New Orleans Convention Center, September 1, 2005
WAREveryone wants to wage it, but no one wants to see its consequences. - politifakes
We talked last week about how war has been sanitized
• Many people like all the military toys
• We like to glorify our troops• As we should
But it’s easy to glorify war from 7,000 miles away or 30-thousand feet
• “Bird Dog, I killed a man today. He wasn't even a soldier; he just kept coming. I couldn't stop him. I didn't want to do it. I never had to do anything like that before in my life. “
Nintendo War
• U.S. Air Force Video
• Marines
o Warning - Graphic Language
The Bush Administration stopped the practice of allowing photographs of coffins returning from Iraq.
Bosnia, 1995
1995 Srebrenica massacre