Reply #31: My, My. Care for some cheese to go with that? [View All]

[panzerfaust]

"I'm only going by the printed and available archive rather than a romantic infatuation with LIFE magazine, so I suppose I hold little water."

It is hardly “romantic infatuation” to recognize the power of visual imagery in general (have you seen an official picture of GW in the past two years that does not also include the American Flag?), and of LIFE’s photojournalism in particular. Some of the most compelling photographs ever made, were published in LIFE.

It is difficult to credit your contention is that images such as this had nothing to do with, finally, turning the American people against the war in Vietnam.



My contention is that LIFE was deliberately killed as a weekly because of its successful part in derailing support for the Vietnam War. In the same manner, independent radio stations were taken over – so that the message can be controlled.

There are thousands of stations playing moldy oldies: oddly, none of the peace songs ever seem to get played. Strange, as they were once so popular.