If Vietnam Were Now What Would We See?
ON the social networks, the iconic picture of General Loan killing a Viet Con prisoner has been given the legend: “IF VIETNAM WERE NOW WHAT WOULD YOU SEE?”
The comment aims at satire, but in a world of 24-hour rolling news and the internet, what we see now is everything.
If Vietnam were now, we’d see the people in the background, the man in the shop, the weather patterns overhead, the ground, the air, the economy – we’d see it all.
And we can choose which filter we want to see it through, or trawl the web and get all the angles. Open a website, and give your own view on the news.
So what did we get then? We got a photoshopped war picture, an image without the story.
If you want to know the full picture read around the matter. Read here.
Find your angle. What do you see..?
August 26th, 2008 at 11:22 am
What do I see? Not as much as the media would love to show me, the bloodier or more titillating the better.
A TV exec’s dream is for a serial killer to go through the Big Bother house, knocking them all off one by one, live on prime time TV. A phone vote would determine the next victim.
C.S.I. Big Brother.
August 26th, 2008 at 11:47 am
I’ve got myself thinking. 10 people in the Celebrity Big Brother Butcher Fest.
Alex Ferguson (no surprise there)
The Editor of Sky News.
Michael Winner
Jeremy Clarkson
Vanessa Feltz
Clarence Mitchell
The bloke from the Halifax adverts
Simon Cowell
Richard Hammond
Gordon Taylor
Irritating Twat’s, one and all.
August 26th, 2008 at 11:48 am
I think I may need a litle lie down, and one of coco’s tablets.
August 26th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
No, I think that’s inspired.
Particularly the bloke from the Halifax advertisments.
Admittedly I’m cold turkeying from the synchronised swimming so I may be tad uncharitable…