![]() Reluctant, at first, to denounce the nation’s most respected news organization, the author decided to be methodical with his approach. I saw this and felt compelled as a writer to say something.” The phrase that kept coming to mind is one of the Department of Homeland Security: ‘If you see something say something.’ That’s what I did but from a different direction. “These photos are photojournalistic but in my view, they are military recruiting posters that have no business on the front page of the most influential English-speaking newspaper of the world. This book challenges the indisputable authority of the paper by claiming The Times has sanctified, eroticized and glamorized warfare. His latest book, War is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict, attempts to make sense of his ambiguous sentiments in the face of the combined violence and beauty that many of these images conveyed. This range worried Shields, “I questioned, why are these photographs gorgeous? Is it an orange sunset that I’m looking at or is it twelve bodies that have just been decapitated?” Over 30 years of loyal reading, Shields recounted how the headline pictures have left him feeling, alternately, stunned, enraptured and sickened. ![]() Its reputation is beyond reproach for many of its loyal readers-which once included the celebrated American author David Shields.īut recently, Shields began to grow uneasy with his fascination for the front-page photographs of the beloved paper. ![]() For Americans, the reference remains the New York Times: a newspaper which in its 164 years of existence has won 117 Pulitzer prizes (well more than any other news outlet). Whether as a morning routine or an evening relaxation, we look towards the news to stay informed about the world around us. For many individuals, reading the news is a vital part of the day.
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