06-26-2019, 10:04 PM
$tevie wrote:
I think the problem is that these powerful images end up being shared by quasi-news-outlets, non-news outlets, and social media users, until they end up being almost of no value as we become desensitized to them in, like, 48 hours.
The days when you saw a photo like this in your local evening paper, and it stopped you dead, and your heart broke, have morphed into seeing the photo dozens or hundreds of times until it's just another pic on the internet.
Yes, when the message is diluted as a cast-off story, it becomes weaker. And in the mix on the same day, we had a president treat an accuser as "otherness" by saying she wasn't his type.