10 abril 2003

VITAMEDIAS

TV tells story: Knowing the power of such symbols, the networks kept their cameras focused on that statue for nearly two hours, waiting for the moment of collapse. [...]
A televised symbol - even one that will be as repeated as often as this one - is ultimately only as powerful as the event it represents. That falling statue represents a relatively easy American victory and the liberation of Iraq. Should history shift again, or should the war grow darker, another image will take its place, at least temporarily.
Still, it's hard not to believe that this war has found its symbol. And TV knew it when it saw it.