Data Analysis Strategies

US Soldier in Haiti

Does it matter where the photo appears:
  • Time Magazine

    • literal reading:
Narrative: US as the guardian of the underdeveloped world, bringing peace to where there is chaos under the neutral, but all-seeing eyes of the press as the guarantor of a righteous government
  • Living Marxism
This is how the US sees itself, but not how it is seen by the world
    • ironic reading

  • The Guardian
the journal itself is mythologised as neutral: there is no comment on the photo; the choice between a literal and an ironic reading is left to the reader


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