Every picture tells a story

Today the well known German magazine Bild is without pictures. To show the importance of images. Brush up your German and read. It is interesting stuff. This direct from Bild. Erst wenn man die Bilder nicht sehe, begreife man ihre Magie…

http://www.bild.de/news/inland/bild-aktionen/bild-ohne-bilder-reaktionen-42493280.bild.html

Here in English from The Guardian.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/08/bild-photos-aylan-kurdi-complaints

A picture tells more than a thousand words. OK, not always, but sometimes it does. And how would media work without it? it helps put the finger on difficult matters. Still many magazines sack photographers thinking that the cameras are doing the job these days. But you have to have a brain and eyes too! That is not built into the electronics.

So today, no pictures. You get the picture?

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