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>Pam Jaiswal <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: LACTNET Digest - 9 Jan 2006 - Special issue (#2006-25)
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>Here is an article that compares pictures of viagra to breastfeeding.
>
>Please consider enlightening the author.
>
>http://www.californiaaggie.com/media/paper981/news/2006/01/09/Opinion/The-Media.Montage-1322115.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.californiaaggie.com
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>Take care.
>
Not at all. The author is making the same point as you are, that they 
don't belong together and that the tragedy of the breastfeeding's mother 
situation is trivialized by the ad.

> In 2005, humanity got beat up and we have pictures that document it 
> all. The seriousness of the homage, however, is lessened by the 
> presence of ads on every other page, trying to sell me crap. Adidas, 
> two pages before the picture of a soldier from Iraq inspecting his 
> amputated leg; Viagra on the same page as the Sudanese refugee 
> breastfeeding her child, and the most fitting, a Kodak camera so that 
> I too can document life's twists and turns.
>
> I can't quite pinpoint why this pairing of tragedy and commodity 
> bothers me. Every day the news presents me with an entirely 
> unmanageable smorgasbord of devastating and disjointed images that I 
> can consume as ravenously and selectively as I want, but then strips 
> them of power and meaning by selling me nonstick pans at the same time 
> or by cutting away to a 20-minute up-close and personal with the 
> snowboarding squirrel.

Jo-Anne

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