Who Said Print Media is (completely) Dead?
Posted by JimThe picture. In case you missed it, I am referring to the cover of Time last week. The power of that picture will, in the annals of war and information, rank alongside other indelible photographs. Who has not seen the one with the young Vietnamese girl trying to run fast enough to cool her napalmed skin?
Magazine sit around and people will see this in waiting rooms, bus stations, news kiosks and other places. They seem to have a longer life as paper does not have to be plugged in.
This picture, unlike the others, is fodder for both sides of the war debate. Each will skillfully exploit it; at least the victim made it to this sane country to cure her disfigurement.
The discouraging part of all of this is the realization that some people have not evolved much past the cave. In my war at least the enemy, while brutal in the military sense, was fighting for a political and cultural system that evolved.
