‘Visual propaganda': Controversial photo of a Gazan child sparks outrage
'It was the Nazis who perfected the art of visual propaganda. But the communists, the fascists, socialists, and indeed all sorts of regimes rely on propaganda to sway public opinion to their cause,' Mr Dean said.
'But now, alas, and this week proved it, we have entered a very dangerous world, where news outlets are happy to show photographs that are presented in a way every bit as phony and as sinister as the forgery of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and for what seems to me to be the very same purposes.
'A week ago today, the New York Times, once but certainly no longer one of the most respected newspapers in the world, published this image on its front page of a child with a caption that said the boy had been born healthy before suffering malnutrition in Gaza.'
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