An Iconic Image from the Invasion of Iraq Wasn’t What It Seemed

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Toppling Saddam and a War’s Coverage

The gripping footage of a Baghdad throng toppling Saddam Hussein’s statue was hardly the turning point of the war. If anything, it symbolized the problems covering the conflict.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/toppling-saddam-and-a-wars-coverage/

“I saw this for what it was — this wasn’t Iwo Jima,” Gary Knight said. “It was probably the most trivial thing I had seen in five weeks. And I recognized what the press, the live TV cameras who had been starved of a story, were making of it. But I thought to myself, I’m not going to flatter this by making it into something that I know it isn’t.”