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"Can you identify this photo?"
Topic Started: Mar 15 2010, 06:02 PM (237 Views)
George K
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Many of today's "journalists" can't.

http://www.theneweditor.com/index.php?/archives/11061-Recognize-this-Photo-Well,-Some-Professional-Journalists-Dont.html

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Recognize this Photo? Well, Some Professional Journalists Don't

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Well, some professional journalists don't.

The Chicago Tribune's Ron Grossman writes:

I took a quick survey in the newsroom the other day, something between a Rorschach test and a pop quiz, asking younger colleagues to identify an iconic photograph of World War II.

While some instantly recognized the image, others couldn't quite place it.

"I know I ought to know it," one co-worker said. "It was in the movie, 'Flags of Our Fathers.'" Some, seeing uniforms, realized it must be a war photo. Maybe Vietnam? One got the era right but the battlefield wrong. She guessed it was D-Day, not, as it was, the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima.

Is this historical ignorance more of a generational thing, or is it more evidence of a general overall media ignorance?

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LWpianistin
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Maybe both? I'm going with ignorance though. I don't think that's far enough in the past for a whole generation to forget it. Having said that, although I do know the photo, I guessed D-Day as well. Whoops...and I like history! :doh:
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George K
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The question struck me as being particularly interesting in light of a discussion I had this afternoon during a gallbladder. I mentioned to the surgeon (who is a flight enthusiast and building a death trap airplane in his garage) that the CV surgeon who used to be a part owner of the Barbie III (a WWII B-25) had sold the aircraft.

He said that the generation of people who are interested in those old airplanes is dying off. The WWII vets are in their 80's, and the generation following them (me) is getting smaller as well. The third generation doesn't have the intimate "feel" of WWII that the other two do. It's something in history books, and not something real.

I don't know if he's right, but it does sort of explain this story.
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I've heard the same thing about old cars. Model T Fords are depreciating because no one old enough to be nostalgic about driving them is around anymore.

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Model T's are super cool!
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I'm sure the parts for those old warbirds and classic cars are getter more scarce and expensive as well.

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I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

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Klaus
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Actually this photo is much better known over here:

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Is that the Reichstag?
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Klaus
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Yes. There is an interesting story behind the photo.
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George, while I hope most people could identify where and when that photo was taken, I'm not surprised.

It's nothing personal against those who lived and/or fought during that generation....but it's just the natural course of history for details and connections to be lost about a certain even as the years go by. Just as I'm sure many during the WWII generation didn't know some of the main facts about the Civil War. And some 50 years from now will probably not even know how many planes went down on 9/11.
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Mar 16 2010, 07:52 AM
George, while I hope most people could identify where and when that photo was taken, I'm not surprised.

It's nothing personal against those who lived and/or fought during that generation....but it's just the natural course of history for details and connections to be lost about a certain even as the years go by. Just as I'm sure many during the WWII generation didn't know some of the main facts about the Civil War. And some 50 years from now will probably not even know how many planes went down on 9/11.
Well, you're right, but I also think that our memories have been serious compromised since the invention of the interwebs.

We don't have to know anything anymore, we can look things up online. We don't need to know our times tables, how to spell, or historic events. We have an app for that. I think as a whole our knowledge base is going to keep circling the drain, the more we rely on technology to do our remembering for us.
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Klaus
Mar 16 2010, 07:47 AM
Yes. There is an interesting story behind the photo.
Indeed. A little early photoshop work going on there.
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Interesting back story. But I did recognize the picture.
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Mar 16 2010, 08:05 AM
Klaus
Mar 16 2010, 07:47 AM
Yes. There is an interesting story behind the photo.
Indeed. A little early photoshop work going on there.
A little photoshopping there to be sure, but the famous Iwo Jima photo was staged. That actual flag-raising was far less dramatic in appearance, and I believe the first flag raised was smaller.

First raising:
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The flags being exchanged:
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Joe Rosenthal's original shot:
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Joe Rosenthal taking photos of the whole group minutes after the second flag-raising:
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