Most of all, it’s about the terror of power and the power of terror. Power and terror have become interchangeable. We journalists have let this happen. Our language has become not just a debased ally, but a full verbal partner in the language of governments and armies and generals and weapons. …
Robert Fisk, in un articolo sull’Independent. Seguito dalla ancora più condivisibile chiosa di Jim Johnson, sul suo blog di politica e fotografia:
If we need always ask ‘who is using this photograph and for what purpose,’ the same is true too of words.
