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Right:
Photo taken by the White House photographer on Sunday night, May 2,
2011, as President Barack Obama and his national security team monitored
the covert operation against Bin Laden"Aghast, Hillary Clinton
clutches her hand to her mouth. Obviously, she observes a matter of life
and death," commented psychologist Martin Schuster the photograph at
the right for the German weekly Der Spiegel, and he continued:
"Many fold their arms or hide them behind their backs. Given the
situation shown, it is possible to interpret this as discomfort or even
as sense of guilt." |
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In the Zurich daily, Tages-Anzeiger,
communication consultant Marcus Knill, stated: "The picture is
reminiscent of a group who watches an important soccer game or a brutal
movie. Yet this is about watching an execution, and that live — very
much like on an execution square in the Middle Ages. A similar photo
could have been taken in the White House on the occasion of the
Columbia-disaster in 2003." And, Miriam Meckel, professor of
communication at the University of St. Gallen, wrote that the media
reactions to Clinton's photo suggest that she is not allowed to show her
fear. |
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To interpret photographs in such ways does not tell us
anything about the photographs, it only tells us something about the
interpreters. As the Talmud states: We do not see things as they are. We
see things as we are. |
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We do know now what was on the minds of the
interpreters when they were looking at this pic — quite some things that
were not visible on the picture shown. Needless to say, this isn't
exactly helpful — if we're interested in the picture, that is. |
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