Well, it should have upset them. It needed to upset them, to engrave itself in every memory in America. This is what happens when hatred overcomes reason. It could have been my federal building. It could have been my baby.
Words tell stories, the facts and the details, the depth and the background.
Pictures evoke emotion and, more important, memory. We quickly forget the facts and the details, the precise names and dates and places. And while words, even the most vivid ones, land mostly with an intellectual whisper, photographs arrive with enough impact to leave that lasting impression. The Eye-Trac studies show that a photo draws far more attention than the words that surround it. That's why the rules are different for newspapers than they are for television.