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xmastree
September 1st, 2005, 10:56 AM
These two pictures from the floods:

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/photos_ts_afp/050830071810_shxwaoma_photo1
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/480/ladm10208301530

Interesting the way they're described, no?

weekend warrior
September 1st, 2005, 11:18 AM
'tis indeed, bit unfortunate that

:sad:

weekend warrior
September 2nd, 2005, 11:05 AM
On photo #1
To our readers: This photo was removed from Yahoo! News at the request of AFP. Interesting :-?

Spacecaptain
September 2nd, 2005, 11:19 AM
did you see wich one they removed?
not the one about the "bad guy looting" but the one about the "nice family providing"...
is it just me or am i percieving a complete lack of compassion and a rage of fingerpointing at a suffering population?

xmastree
September 2nd, 2005, 11:26 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/page/photostatement

:-#

weekend warrior
September 2nd, 2005, 11:54 AM
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/interactive/weather/0508/gallery.katrina.tues.pm/tz.01.05.ap.jpg Over on CNN (http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/weather/0508/gallery.katrina.tues.pm/frameset.exclude.html) he's dragging.

"A young man drags groceries through chest-deep water in New Orleans on Tuesday."

weekend warrior
September 2nd, 2005, 12:16 PM
There was definately some missing context from the "finders" photo....


And here’s what Chris Graythen, the photographer whose picture was carried by AFP, had to say:

I wrote the caption about the two people who ‘found’ the items. I believed in my opinion, that they did simply find them, and not ‘looted’ them in the definition of the word. The people were swimming in chest deep water, and there were other people in the water, both white and black. I looked for the best picture. there were a million items floating in the water - we were right near a grocery store that had 5+ feet of water in it. it had no doors. the water was moving, and the stuff was floating away. These people were not ducking into a store and busting down windows to get electronics. They picked up bread and cokes that were floating in the water. They would have floated away anyhow. I wouldn’t have taken in, because I wouldn’t eat anything that’s been in that water. But I’m not homeless. (well, technically I am right now.)

I’m not trying to be politically correct. I’m don’t care if you are white or black. I spent 4 hours on a boat in my parent’s neighborhood shooting, and rescuing people, both black and white, dog and cat. I am a journalist, and a human being - and I see all as such. If you don’t belive me, you can look on Getty today and see the images I shot of real looting today, and you will see white and black people, and they were DEFINATELY looting. And I put that in the caption.

Just goes to show "a picture is worth a thousand words".