"...If all the money expended on all the images of the plight of migrant laborers since Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly's Harvest of Shame program had been used for day-care centers and the improvement of these worker's living conditions, their plight would be significantly improved. I doubt that the "professional sympathizers" who produced all these images can defend their work with much tangible evidence. Power comes more directly from the end of a gun thab it does from the lens of a camera. Few revolutions were won in a movie house or on the six o' clock news."
"The Ethics of Image Making; or, 'They're Going to Put Me in the Movies. They're Going to Make a Big Star Out of Me...'"
Jay Ruby
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