Postman and Powers claims about the differences between stationary pictures, moving pictures, and language are simply put…TRUE! One really never thinks about these things when watching the news. But, if people really stop and think about this, it makes perfect sense. A stationary picture in a newspaper without any words does not have the same effect as a picture with words, describing the picture. In the news, moving pictures have a much greater impact than stationary pictures. This is the reason moving images are used so much in news broadcasts. As it is stated in their essay “moving pictures favor images that change. That is why violence and dynamic destruction find their way onto television so often.” (Gray-Rosendale, 2008, p. 486) Hence the catastrophe filled images that are seen on the news. Language on the other hand is more complex, involving emotion-laden words. The saying is that a picture is worth a thousand words, but the reality is it just may be the opposite….a word is worth a thousand pictures!
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