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A Word is worth a thousand Pictures
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A wise man once wrote, "A
picture's worth a thousand words" next
to one of his favourite pictures. But if that
picture really was worth a thousand words, why
did he need to use six of them to back it up?
It's a famous saying and it's used in just about
every snowboard photo annual or photography
magazine or book you'll ever see. Personally
I'm not sure it's true...
Sure, a picture can perhaps capture a scene
or event with far more detail than a person
could ever portray in words alone. In fact,
even pictures cannot capture certain things
in life well enough, which is what lead to the
invention of the camcorder and why they are
so good, the actually show things exactly how
they happened and put across to another person
what a certain event was like. Of course, nothing
can substitute experiencing something first
hand, in the flesh. Any football fan will tell
you this..
So pictures are more powerful than words in
provoking an emotional reaction within a person?
Yes you say. However you would have to show
somebody a very shocking image to bring them
to tears, and yet often with only three or four
words you can make a person cry, some more easily
than others. The good thing about words, compared
to images, is that they are easier to control,
to corrupt. A newspaper can print pictures documenting
an event, but it is the words in the article
which really tell the story, which create the
emotional effect, and which, as a result, control
(and like I say, sometimes corrupt) your perception
of a person, and event, or a country. Sorry
did I say that was a good thing? Well it's not
so good...
You see the trouble with words is that people
generally believe what they read. Being gullible
is one of the human races biggest weaknesses.
Newspapers know this, politicians know this.
Words are the new weapons of mass destruction,
bombing the public every single day in an attempt
to change our views, to gain support for a regime
that, if portrayed solely in pictures, would
not look so attractive, so squeaky clean.
An illiterate person, like a young child who
has not yet learnt to read, will just look at
pictures and draw their own conclusions. There
is no space for brain washing, just innocence.
Of course intelligent people will read the words
to go with the picture and as a result be 'enlightened',
and 'informed' on current affairs. Are they
though, as a result, under control? Indeed..
Media control is a dangerous thing. Question
what you see on a daily basis in the media -
in newspapers, magazines, and on your television.
You may like to think of yourself as intelligent,
'clued-up', but if you really question what
you know, you will find that you only know what
you are told, or what "they" want
you to know. Laugh it off if you wish but the
truth is that only the cancerman and his buddies
know what is going on in the world, and while
the general public continue to buy newspapers
and watch TV, accepting all they consume without
question, it will not change. Some of the most
shocking images ever to grace the pages of newspapers
were those of the September 11th incident. Nobody
can deny that they felt a strong sense of shock
and emotional upset when they saw the images.
More shocking and upsetting perhaps, though,
is that which was not printed in the news, that
those people died for two things; money and
oil, or information such as the Bin Laden's
investment in the Carlyle Group, one of the
largest military contractors in the USA. Is
it not shocking that Americas biggest military
defense is funded by undoubtedly their (so called)
biggest enemy? Still, business is business...and
such facts are obviously not deemed to make
good news.
The Big brother nation is upon us. Draw your
own conclusions, (and at the same time save
the rainforests!)
Editorial : A Winter
    
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