Everyone has heard the expression: there’s three sides to every story – yours, mine and the truth.
I recently came across this photo and claims of how it had been misused. It’s been suggested that Al-Jazeera and CNN cropped it to their liking with Al Jazeera making use of the first part of the picture and CNN of the second. But I have no record of this being accurate.
Nonetheless, the photo definitely can change the story behind it depending on the angle you take.
If you only see this part of the photo you’ll have a different story from…
… when you only see this part:
And you’ll take a different viewpoint when you see the photo in full:
Moral of the story: what you see it isn’t always the truth. Always look for the other two angles. And a reminder that there’s always a story behind the story.
2 comments
Johnny Saunderson says:
Nov 15, 2011
He was only making a point, Mark! You seem to have missed the point by taking his deliberate exaggeration literally. I can bring it further by saying the same thing applies to television news by the process of very selective editing. I speak from experience!
Mark Almond says:
Nov 11, 2011
Nonsense. The first cropped picture would never feature in a newspaper, and probably never a blog. It is absurdly cropped. Even the second picture is too tightly cropped to be taken seriously. People are not as stupid as you seem to believe.