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LuEllen  Huntley's avatar

Just 3 cents' worth: (1) I'm glad to hear "anecdotal evidence" such as that presented because I trust the source, and qualitative research has been for me a favored research method. (2) Use of the term "selective outrage"--especially in this context--says tons about our collective reactivity about seriously dangerous events. It's a predictable, pathetic, and unread rhetorical move. (3) Along the same line as unlearned discourse--the power of images has become so potent because many choose not to read and allow images and memes to be all there is to a story. Rather than do difficult processing to challenge personal beliefs and unconscious biases. Photojournalism has and continues to be powerful, but viewers are required to analyze and think about images. The sad tale is the blood on the face image, with fist raised, will have legs.

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Bill Nasso's avatar

It will likely have much more than ‘legs’. Images have a rhetoric of their own that mainlines emotion.

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LuEllen  Huntley's avatar

I agree with the way you say images have rhetoric of their own that "mainlines emotions." For someone as cruel a savage as the one with blood on his face, this particular depiction--about as satanic an image I've ever seen. Nothing like the brown hair dye dribbling down Giuliani's sweaty face although that is an icky visage that imitates demonic. The other does not pretend his consumed possession.

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