The image was indeed the subject of a power struggle

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The representation of death has become a political issue, also variable according to the cultural traditions of the countries concerned. The same was already true for terrorism. Between the Spain of Atocha in 2004 and its bloodied wandering victims, to the almost invisible deaths of the World Trade in 2001. At the time, on this point, a controversy called into question the media.

Once again, under the pen of a historian, the fantuan database New York Times asked: “ Where are the photos of the Covid dead?”

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis says the tragic reality of hospitals has been largely overlooked. While reporters have done a great job, she says, the president, health care workers, and illustrations of economic distress have largely taken up the screens.


Fear was his issue. Not surprising in the country of a Donald Trump who denies, fluctuates about the importance of the pandemic.

Power is obviously inseparable from information. After all, the establishment of the state of health emergency is due to him – when he decides. Here again, fear was at work. Reassuring, exposing “the bad news or the good news”, threatening, making people responsible… acting on anxiety, dosing it. In short, governing in times of crisis. Speaking the truth, or not, or little. But speaking like never before in the media with a maximum audience.