> ... in my teens, I looked at Hollywood films where people were shot and there was no sign of blood. I was watching a John Wayne film, “The Green Berets,” and he was going out to dinner in Saigon with a white tuxedo. In real life you’d die of perspiration.
> How the public gets taken for fools by Hollywood and all kinds of other media, I’m not only contemptuous, but I’m very suspicious, I trust nobody.
https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/don-mccullin-at-war/
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> This year I've become.. even more disillusioned with the press corps (myself included), jetting in and out of hot spots, but I'm beginning to realize it is the more the public indifference than the fault of the press. The last week of 2004 brings a tsunami claiming more than 150,000 lives, battles raging in Iraq, elections looming in Israel. People back home have jobs, kids, lives. There is only so much time for other people's distant crises.
https://digitaljournalist.org/issue0501/dis_kamber.html
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> .. worst offenders are editors. Again, Newsweek taking a photo by Balazs Gardi of a child wounded by Americans and printing it as an illustration for an article about children wounded by the Taliban. This kid wasn’t wounded by the Taliban; he was wounded by Americans. Their response was ‘Well, it’s a wounded Afghan kid, who cares?’ It matters. It matters who the kid was wounded by..
https://petapixel.com/2015/08/04/interview-michael-kamber-on-photojournalism-ethics-and-the-altering-of-images/
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