Monday, March 12, 2007

war/dead poeple photo

I found this image at postsecret.com and I found it interesting. At first, the observer sees the field of dead people, which they then can assume that a war or struggle of some kind has taken place. The more interesting part is the words up at the top of the image though. The person portrays the news as a source that always talks about dead people and it could "spoil" a person's day. The image has no color at all which I also find interesting. This points out that it is to a older crowd. There is no bright colors that would attract a kid. It is also towards an audience of serious viewers. This is not a comical matter. The author is trying to make a point that the news is full of death and it spoils his/her day. One would have to assume that it is real dead people that the author was talking about because if he/she used this for everything, he/she could not watch most television or movies knowing that people die in them (even though it is not in a real sense). The news may be full of "dead people" but this should not spoil his/her day. What if it is of someone important like a president's death or a death of someone she/he knows. Wouldn't he/she want to know who died then? Just because the news has a lot of death stories doesn't mean that a person should not watch it. It could have important information that could be used later on in life. All in all, I guess the picture just stuck out to me because I like to know who is dead or alive and the picture makes the news look like a super bad place when, in reality, it is not.

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