... closer to home, but the fact of the matter is that the picture showed the family, with the boy not even fully in the body bag, at the most inopportune time. In defense of the photographer, he or she was only trying to do their job and get the best picture for the paper, but it was not their decision to which picture would be illustrated. The editor has the final say in terms of what ... will or will not be printed and in regards to this picture, the editor and the photographer showed poor taste. As a result of the increasing interest of the public to know all the happenings around the w...

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... sum wholly different from any of its parts This reconstructive process is a perilous one, fraught with potential for misinterpretation and/or misuse of the facts. The ambiguity of the "facts" themselves are clearly problematic, but more so are the ways those facts are "discovered" and subsequently presented. How does a historian know when he has reached genuine testimony of an event that ... that intention differ from it's actual use? What was going on around the subject that didn't get captured in the picture? With any of these questions left unanswered, it becomes apparent that thoug...

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