40 years ago today "An Indelible Image of War"

[madrchsod]

"Forty years ago Friday, photojournalist Eddie Adams captured one history's most memorable images. The 1968 photo of a South Vietnamese officer executing a Viet Cong guerrilla on a Saigon street helped change American opinion of the Vietnam War."




http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18592673

NPR: An Indelible Image of War, 40 Years Later





my generation failed to never let it happen again...

[fenriswolf]

1. that picture fucks with my head everytime i see it

and the video makes me hurt.

[Warpy]

2. Our generation was simply not consulted

pushed into silence and irrelevance by the ones just before and just after who grew up loving money and voting conservatives into power.

[Hissyspit]

3. Hey! That's upsetting my breakfast!

You shouldn't be allowed to publish that. Someone should protect us from such upsetting images.

:sarcasm:

[madrchsod]

4. we have our media protecting us now

during that war those pictures were on the 6 o`clock news every day of the week

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. That's not the media "protecting" us ...

I think it's the military. The media would trip all over themselves to show footage more bloody than the next network. I think they're on a short leash.

[madrchsod]

6. i forgot that..

embedded reporters is what we get now..judy miller`s of the media.

[Pavulon]

7. It is all over youtube and Liveleak

they could broadcast bloody footage from both "sides". They choose not to.