Re: CNN's web site today Sunday 14.10.01

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Gary MacLennan wrote:
>
> The photo essay by Alexandra Boulat on today's CNN web site is a remarkable
> piece.  It is anchored by the title "Pakistan's Wild West".  It consists of
> some 14 photos published in Time on Quetta, a Taliban stronghold in
> Northern Pakistan.  The term 'anchoring' is meant to describe the process
> by which the printed word is added to the photograph in order to stabilise
> its meaning.


The photoessay is actually on the Time server
http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/
and as now is not yet reachable through the US edition of the CNN
webpage.  I got to it through the European edition
http://europe.cnn.com/

The pictures are impacting, but it's hard to tell precisely what pulls
them together as a presentation. Perhaps an impression of lawlessness
and that the rules of "normal" society don't apply there?

Underneath all that, and cutting through it, is as you note a truly
depressing tableau of human misery.

- Juan
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