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OPINION: Offended by Photo of Starving Baby?
Wednesday, January 16, 2002
By Bruce Hahn
My Word

Bruce Hahn lives in Orlando and is a marketing and sales consultant



How long will the ignorance be acceptable? More important, how long until we choose to be ignorant again?

It is said, "A picture is worth a thousand words." That is an understatement. Sometimes, it is also worth an angry letter containing a threat.

A letter writer to this newspaper threatened to cancel a subscription to the Orlando Sentinel over a front-page photo and article concerning starvation in Afghanistan. The writer believed the article was more about selling newspapers than reporting news.

I also read the article and I felt more informed about what is happening in that country. I don't know of any other way to cover a country torn by war, famine and an oppressive regime, which also happens to be the venue of a massive U.S. military action. There is no cosmetically appealing way to report on the plight of Afghans suffering from the results of the Taliban.
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