Best world press photo - Somalian boy carrying a shark on his shoulders

[graveyardofempires]

[faye]

good photo. i've caught one about half that size on a handline.

[Catya Sher]

Was this from that same competition for Best World News Photos
which the Awful Contrived Aisha of Afghanistan
was selected by TIME ?

It's a neat photo, especially with the haunting ruins of what appeared
to have been a beautiful classic building behind the boy.

faye, what did you do with the shark ?!

[graveyardofempires]

yes catya this one was also in the list
but unfortunate for the juries this one was not propaganda worthy

[Catya Sher]

^ You got it !

Isn't it sad that even a simple PHOTO CONTEST is so heavily laced with
the agenda of certain parties ?

Mulitiply the impact of the picture that WAS selected by four or five thousand times.
Then we can understand
how much brainwashing is intended by even the seemingly least complex Hollywood movie
of today.

Then what about all the doc's on Afgh produced by Western sources?

[faye]

the more i look at that photo, the more awesome it looks. i love the buildings in the background too.
first, i caught a small shark, years ago. i cooked it and ate it and it tasted awful. one should bleed it by cutting off fins or something and i didn't know that. then i decided that it is an ancient predator and i should be more respectful plus i am a snorkeller and maybe if i don't eat them they won't eat me.
i been watching all of the ways they throw in sly anti iran propaganda, since 'the axis of evil' speech. before that we hardly ever heard the name. then it was added to comments that were totally unrelated, by israeli, american or english politicians. the overt, 'iran is supplying so and so with weapons', the weapons were made in iran and so on. now iran is said to be supplying taliban with arms. who knows, because who is telling us that?

[*Mahzala*]

Most of the World Press photos breach ethical standards. Among the many, there is one that I'll remember for a long time. A young girl, under rubble, in a puddle of water, on the verge of death, with half her body stuck and the visible half, black, bruised and bleeding because of so much pressure and clotting. Her eyes, blood-shot red, pleading to the photographer and those around her. She died six hours later. Apparently, the photographer who later won the award didn't want to accept it, because, on one side, he knew, he had taken advantage of her weakness, and on the other, spent eight hours with the girl and watched her die. More than often, world press photos are of similar nature, and people are captured in the weakest, most frail moment, where being made history or publicised is the last of their concerns. There is so much negative baggage with them, it is disturbing.

[faye]

that is like when they do interviews with people who are traumatised and keep asking delving questions to get them to cry, and then keep filming when they do.

[*Mahzala*]

that is like when they do interviews with people who are traumatised and keep asking delving questions to get them to cry, and then keep filming when they do.

Why do they keep filming? That is so disturbing. If they caught me like that, it'll be more of a humourous scene than a saddening one.

[faye]

i saw them do it tonight on 60mins. tv was on and i just caught this guy going on and on at this woman, then i realised it was that poor woman whose very young baby was taken from her arms in the flood here recently. and he kept on until she started crying. at the end of the program they asked for people to help this family. so that was why, in this instance but you see it a lot. the prying questions, going on and on. it is so insensitive.

[*Mahzala*]

i saw them do it tonight on 60mins. tv was on and i just caught this guy going on and on at this woman, then i realised it was that poor woman whose very young baby was taken from her arms in the flood here recently. and he kept on until she started crying. at the end of the program they asked for people to help this family. so that was why, in this instance but you see it a lot. the prying questions, going on and on. it is so insensitive.

Ah, 60 minutes, Today Tonight and A Current Affair are what the leading ethical media alliances refer to as, in very simple terms, a bunch of lies and unethical journalism at its best. There is so much editing that goes into those shows to broadcast a certain view, often, in the negative light towards some publics and consumers. And the amount of broadcasting policies they've breached only makes their viewer ratings and confidence in them decrease even further. If you ask me, they give journalism a bad name.

[faye]

it's a bit of a laugh when they chase bad guys down the street, or try and follow them into their houses and offices, still demanding a response to the question. it is a wonder they aren't arrested going practically into peoples homes. i must admit though, some of those creeps should be exposed.

[graveyardofempires]

i saw them do it tonight on 60mins. tv was on and i just caught this guy going on and on at this woman, then i realised it was that poor woman whose very young baby was taken from her arms in the flood here recently. and he kept on until she started crying. at the end of the program they asked for people to help this family. so that was why, in this instance but you see it a lot. the prying questions, going on and on. it is so insensitive.

thats a perfect observation Faye.
i saw a report about the refugees from Helmand to Kabul who fled the war and bombings.now they were facing extreme cold and the kid they were filming had no shoes and standing in the cold snow,if i was the reporter i would go right away and buy as much shoes for as much people possible.
but this reporter also seemed not really interested because all he needed was a news item.

[AnGaaR]

Zar Zar yai korta worasawa chei ra weikh nashei aw kharap dai nakei

[faye]

yes, sometimes i am thinking,'well put the camera down and help the guy!!!' when they interview people who are not well off, for a doco, i wonder whether they pay them, because they would get payment for the documentary.
i forgot to add before, that i have caught metre or more long sharks but have let them go. heaps of sharks in the waters where i live but they are mostly reef sharks, which have a reputation for not attacking humans .