Comments on: Forty years later: Kim Phuc, the girl in the photo https://thenewneo.com/2012/06/08/forty-years-later-kim-phuc-the-girl-in-the-photo/ A blog about political change, among other things Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:40:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: IGotBupkis, Legally Defined Cyberbully in All 57 States https://thenewneo.com/2012/06/08/forty-years-later-kim-phuc-the-girl-in-the-photo/#comment-368224 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:40:13 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=17096#comment-368224 I added a note about the photo in the subsequent thread about 2-3 days after this one.

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2012/06/08/forty-years-later-kim-phuc-the-girl-in-the-photo/#comment-368115 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 16:23:07 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=17096#comment-368115 PapaMAS: I think it’s even more complicated than that. Sometimes the facts were reported wrong regarding the photo. But sometimes they were merely omitted, or important parts omitted. Sometimes (I would guess) that omission was done purposely and strategically, but sometimes it was done ignorantly and without even realizing the importance of the deeper context.

]]> By: PapaMAS https://thenewneo.com/2012/06/08/forty-years-later-kim-phuc-the-girl-in-the-photo/#comment-368053 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:30:08 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=17096#comment-368053 Yep, that’s our press: “The facts, however interesting, are irrelevant. I reject reality and substitute my own! The important thing is the story I want to tell, facts be damned!”

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2012/06/08/forty-years-later-kim-phuc-the-girl-in-the-photo/#comment-367782 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:08:51 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=17096#comment-367782 Sushisistah: I think your reaction was an extremely common one. And not just among the very young.

]]> By: Sushisistah https://thenewneo.com/2012/06/08/forty-years-later-kim-phuc-the-girl-in-the-photo/#comment-367775 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:59:59 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=17096#comment-367775 I remember taking that magazine into my room from the hiding place that my mother stashed it in. I was very young but very curious. I DO remember thinking “why would America do this?”.

]]> By: holmes https://thenewneo.com/2012/06/08/forty-years-later-kim-phuc-the-girl-in-the-photo/#comment-367744 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:44:20 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=17096#comment-367744 Richard- yes, I hated the press before. But beginning to really hate it.

]]> By: Richard Aubrey https://thenewneo.com/2012/06/08/forty-years-later-kim-phuc-the-girl-in-the-photo/#comment-367737 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:18:38 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=17096#comment-367737 holmes.
I presume you meant “beginning” metaphorically.
Anybody who’s been paying attention began decades ago.

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2012/06/08/forty-years-later-kim-phuc-the-girl-in-the-photo/#comment-367701 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:40:22 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=17096#comment-367701 Michael: the links at the end, to old posts of mine, tell that story as well.

]]> By: Michael https://thenewneo.com/2012/06/08/forty-years-later-kim-phuc-the-girl-in-the-photo/#comment-367649 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:39:34 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=17096#comment-367649 Another famous picture is the when that shows a South Vietnamese official (in Saigon ) shooting a North Vietnamese in the head. The story behind that picture is instructive.

Jeeze, makes me look forward to August.

]]> By: holmes https://thenewneo.com/2012/06/08/forty-years-later-kim-phuc-the-girl-in-the-photo/#comment-367636 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:24:52 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=17096#comment-367636 I never knew this. I’m beginning to really hate our press.

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