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Frontpage News. Digital. Artist unknown.
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Content of the Zeit article, summarized:
- Yes this was a Hitler salute. No "apparent" necessary. We've all seen it.
- Newspapers now have two choices, both of them bad: they can ignore it ever happened, as to not feed the attention the action clearly craved, which normalizes open Nazi symbolism further, or they can explicitly address it, knowing that Musk wants attention, even negative attention. Clearly the Zeit has chosen the latter, and redacted the salute itself to somewhat lessen the impact. -
Moreover, I think the Zeit is making some important meta commentary about journalism:
Sometimes you have to lead with an opinion piece. You cannot neutrally report some events, and should not even try.
Sometimes, it is good to redact an image. Not to withhold information from your readers, but as a comment in itself "this is what we, as a society, do not accept". The reader still learns what happened from the text. If they do wish, they can find the full picture easily plastered all over the internet. But you don't have a Nazi salute on your front page. -
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