There are certain things that I fail to understand....
Due to the series of unfortunate events happening all over the world, I've noticed this one thing, and am unable to comprehend with it..
Why are images of all the pain, all the suffering, all the ruins, all the anguish, all the trauma with their minute and very disturbing details splashed across by the media in print and television?
Conveying the magnitude of the misfortune and the extent of damage is one thing.. but things stretch far beyond that at some places..
Starving, frail, sick, dying kids; distressed,shelterless, helpless, desparate old people; mangled,ruined,disfigured bodies, strewn carcasses, extreme close ups of a screaming mother who has lost her kid, a heart broken father beating his chest for losing his young son to terrorism..
Images that intrude the most intimate sorrows of someone's life, images that publicise the pain of the sufferers, images that advertise the ruins...
For years we'ev seen these images, as the root causes of all this have strenghtened and our feelings have numbed..
Is this a ghastly attempt to evoke those hardened feelings? Or is it a display of the extent one can go to capture the "actual" story? Is it an attempt to potray the feelings so closely that one gasps and shuts his eyes at the horror of experiencing someone's misfortune at such a close length?
These images do communicate what thousands of words have to say, but is it going a bit too far?
