La visi\u00f3n triunfalista y bobalicona que muchos medios norteamericanos dan sobre la guerra en Irak tiene su manifestaci\u00f3n palpable en la figura del soldado [\u00abBlake Miller\u00bb:http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/ABPub\/2004\/11\/12\/2002086301.jpg] (foto). Nos lo cuenta Norman Solomon en su art\u00edculo \u00ab[\u00abMedia’s War Images Delude Instead of Inform\u00bb:http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/solomon01092006.html]\u00bb. De imprescindible lectura. Extracto:<\/p>\n
\u00abThe picture was perfect. It provided a moving portrait, an image that journalists called \u00abiconic.\u00bb It was true to the moment. Yet the photograph was deceiving in a way that media images often are — showing us what’s more apparent than real.
\nOne day, during the second week of November 2004, millions of Americans saw the photo. Blake Miller’s face was grimy, but his eyes were clearly visible. He seemed resolute, unflappable. Wisps of smoke appeared to be rising from the long cigarette that dangled from his lips.
\nAt the time, Marines were fighting their way into Fallujah, and American news outlets went gaga for the picture. At age 20, Miller suddenly became a famous archetype. (…)
\nThe real person Blake Miller, not the media icon, said: \u00abI’m continuing my therapy. I continued up until the day I got out, actually.\u00bb And, speaking of other Americans who had fought in Iraq, he said: \u00abThe more and more I talked to them, the more I found out that there was a lot of Marines that were going through same, similar emotions. And I mean, it’s — it’s tough to deal with. I mean, being in Iraq is something that no one wants to talk about.\u00bb
\nAs an American soldier in an \u00abiconic\u00bb photo, Blake Miller was newsworthy for a little while. But in sharp contrast to the media enthusiasm that greeted him back in November 2004, there was no major media coverage in the days after \u00abThe Early Show\u00bb revealed on Jan. 3 that he’s suffering from posttraumatic stress. For the warfare state, he has outlived his usefulness.\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"La visi\u00f3n triunfalista y bobalicona que muchos medios norteamericanos dan sobre la guerra en Irak tiene su manifestaci\u00f3n palpable en la figura del soldado [\u00abBlake Miller\u00bb:http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/ABPub\/2004\/11\/12\/2002086301.jpg] (foto). Nos lo cuenta Norman Solomon en su art\u00edculo \u00ab[\u00abMedia’s War Images Delude Instead of Inform\u00bb:http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/solomon01092006.html]\u00bb. De imprescindible lectura. Extracto: \u00abThe picture was perfect. It provided a moving portrait,… Leer m\u00e1s »Iconos rotos<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[148],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actualidad","tag-irak-iraq-guerra-medios-eeuu-manipulacion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junjan.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}