Answer TWO of the following for Monday's class:
Q1: How does Qaissi's story relate to Fenton's from Chapter 1? Both are accused of fabricating their accounts and offering a "fake" story to the public. Yet Fenton actually took the picture, and Qaissi only claimed to be the subject of the picture. Was he intentionally "manipulating" an image for a specific effect? Or were his claims, true or not, unable to substantially change the image?
Q2: Morris writes that "Our beliefs do not determine what is true or false. They do not determine objective reality. But they can determine what we "see" " (84). What does he mean by this? How can a belief be false but also make an image seem true?
Q3: Similar to Fenton's two "ON" and "OFF" images, there are multiple images of the Prisoner on the Box. According to Morris, why did one image become more iconic than the others? Is this image more "obvious" than the others?
Q4: In Chapter 1, Morris writes that there is a significant difference between "information and knowledge" (63). How does this chapter prove this point once again? Why does the information around this photograph not translate into knowledge in the article? What prevented the journalists investigating the story from becoming informed?
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