Aconselho a leitura deste texto de Edward Wasserman, na edição online do jornal da Universidade de Portland, nos Estados Unidos.
São só dois minutos. E vale a pena.
Excertos:
"(...) we're about to tip into a new era, where the unparalleled abundance of communicating capacity will make a newspaper editor's qualms an archaic irrelevancy. Atrocity is becoming part of the vocabulary of news".
"(...) as the recent flood of powerful images from the Middle East makes clear, words may assert, but it's pictures that compel. And it's here that the Internet is starting to have its greatest impact".
"The real problems come if we now plunge into a world of discourse that is even more superficial than news by sound bites, when conflict is waged with an eye - literally - to the images it will spawn, when politics becomes spectacle and spectacle becomes dueling icons. The danger posed by iconic images - whether a toppling statue, an American led like a lamb to slaughter or an Iraqi shackled and degraded - is that they may do no more than reaffirm belief and reassure believers".
Publicado por lasantos em maio 27, 2004 12:56 PM