A laudable trait. Unfortunately, he wasn't fond of all children--only those belonging to the "Aryan" race.
Human beings are complicated. When considering them, we must not settle for partial information, half-truths, or single images.
We must learn to think critically, even if it means contradicting what our "guts" tell us is self-evident.
Every picture tells a story, yes. But what, precisely, that story is takes time to parse out. We need background; we need context, context, context.
When we do not demand to know all that we can about a given assertion, we are left with statements like the title of this post: which is true enough in one sense and terribly false in many others. If we acknowledge only the true sense of the statement, we bury the false senses and the truth we acknowledge becomes a screen for a whole host of lies.
Journalism is a genre of reporting to a deadline: the race to "get the story" and get it out. Partial information is unavoidable. Half-truths are rampant. Single images purport to tell what words cannot.
Interrogate every assertion. Question every image. If you don't, you'll play the fool.
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