The AP Picture

at around evening time on Sunday, the 10th of April 2005 by Chad

Power Line has a deconstruction of the comments made about the famous AP Picture that just won the pulitzer.

I have been forwarded a “story behind the photo” by Santiago Lyon, Director of Photography of the Associated Press that was posted on April 5. I regret that I hadn’t seen this account of the Iraq lynching before writing my views, nor had I seen the original “uncropped” version of the photo until last night. Only the cropped version was available on the Pulitzer website. Looking at the uncropped version of the picture, assuming the camera was a 35mm, then a reasonable inference would still remain that the photographer was less than 50 meters from the subject.

I now know what the Director of Photography believes the photos demonstrate and why they were important: “The images spoke volumes about the situation in Iraq just six weeks before the 2005 national elections — the murder of people key to the election process, on a main street in Baghdad, with the gunmen not even bothering to conceal their identity with masks.”

Let me unpack the commentary by Santiago Lyon by following his description of the event

Frankly, my humble opinion is that it is just way to easy to believe that the photographer was working with the terrorists. I have come to expect no less… I wonder why that is?

But MediaLies, one of my favorite reads, has more.