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Washington - National Geographic magazine, known for its breathtaking photography, has decided this time a picture isn't worth a thousand words.

The single-topic September issue, on the complex problems and promise of Africa, is the magazine's first cover without a photograph since 1988 - and only the second since it began using cover photos in 1943.

The white cover is dominated by a bold, brown word - "Africa" - and below that, "Whatever you thought, think again."

The unusual choice was made by the magazine's new editor in chief, Chris Johns, who was a career photographer for 30 years, spending much of that time in Africa.

It's the first complete issue published under his direction.

Johns said he wanted to "highlight astonishing stories of renewal, ingenuity and potential heard through unfiltered African voices".

"These stories counterbalance the bleak headlines of civil war, disease, poverty and extinction."

"Africa isn't one place," Johns said in an interview.

"It's a million places. We felt that no single photograph could cover the depth of Africa."

The magazine last went without a cover picture in 1988 when the cover noted the celebration of National Geographic's 100th anniversary.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,6119,2-11-1447_1756408,00.html




A koji im je djavo to trebalo.....

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sspin, sta ti smeta? receno je da samo taj broj nece imati sliku na naslovnoj strani, ne i da slika nece biti u samom magazinu!

dobar nacin da se skrene paznja razvijenog sveta (posebno USA) na probleme i teskoce "crnog kontinenta"...

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Pa ja bas mislim da bi slika trebalo da stoji jer kao sto rekose : slika govori kao hiljadu reci i mislim da bi se tada vise skrenula paznja USA oko ovog problema

Dopuna: 22 Avg 2005 10:23

National Geographic takes new look at terror attacks with 'Inside 9/11'


The scene is grimly familiar: smoke swirling around the World Trade Center, New York firefighters tending the injured, shattered windows, sirens piercing the air. Yet the images at the start of a new National Geographic documentary are not from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

"It's the 1993 bombing, but for a minute, you're not sure," said executive producer Michael Cascio, referring to the explosion of a fertilizer bomb in a garage under the twin towers that killed six and injured more than 1,000 on Feb. 26 of that year. "When you first see it, you think it's 9/11, and that brings it home."

Cascio said the four-hour program, airing in two parts, attempts to connect the dots from the earlier attack, which "felt like an isolated incident," through the years and across time zones to that September Tuesday he called "the most important American event since the Civil War. "

Structured chronologically, the broadcast features varying elements: interviews with experts, officials, survivors and observers; news and amateur video footage and still photos; audio from air traffic control and the doomed airplanes; plus computer-generated visuals depicting the interiors of the planes and the twin towers.





Part 1, "War on America," traces the trail of al-Qaida to the Soviet-Afghan war in 1978 and examines terrorist activities, including the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000.

Part 2, "Zero Hour," tracks the movements of the 19 hijackers, the planes and passengers, and shows the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.

"This is the first time this kind of thing has been put together in one audio-visual display, and that should have more impact than a written report," said Bogdan Dzakovic, an FAA whistleblower who is among the experts interviewed on camera.

The program "doesn't point fingers, but it will cause the public to question the idea that all these commissions seem to have no one responsible for anything," said Michael Scheuer, a former CIA intelligence analyst who also is interviewed in the program.

Cascio said the many video and audio recordings from the attacks provided an incentive to do the program.

"You can actually hear the flight attendant (Betty Ong) on Flight 11 saying a passenger has been stabbed," he said. "There's video of a firefighter going up the stairs (in the World Trade Center) ... . There is so much new information that has come out over the last few years: the new recordings, the ticket agent in Maine who checks in Mohamed Atta -- the details that, when you put them together, create a richer, deeper story."

Some details surprised even those who appear in the documentary. Scheuer cited a computer-generated graphic that illustrates how burning jet fuel spread down the World Trade Center elevators, weakening the structure and ultimately dooming the buildings.

"And there's a glimpse of someone filming on the street in New York," he said. "You could see the plane fly behind them into the building. I had not seen that before. That sort of material is new and is a very human telling of the story."

The human images are still vivid to Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Braman, who was at his Pentagon desk when American Airlines Flight 77 struck the building.

"I still have triggers that send me back to relive the whole day," said Braman, who spent three days on the site helping with the rescue and recovery of 63 individuals.

He hopes the documentary, in which he appears, reminds viewers how "on that one day, the entire world was brought together, and if you don't keep that feeling in the minds and the heart, it slowly wanders away," he said.

Braman said the July 7 subway bombing in London made him nervous. "Since 9/11, everything that happens now is considered a terrorist attack, an attack to bring fear to society," he said. "We were asleep at the wheel for the 1993 bombing, and as a population, we will get lackadaisical again. But I tell people: Americans are not victims, we are survivors, and that makes you a harder target to deal with."

The film, dedicated to National Geographic staffers Ann Judge and Joe Ferguson, who died in the Pentagon crash, includes an update on incidents of terror since Sept. 11, 2001, from the 2002 Bali bombing through the July attack in London that killed more than 50 people.

"It will remind you how incredibly traumatic Sept. 11 was, and how our senses were heightened for that time," Cascio said. "And it shows that we do need to pay attention to what goes on in the rest of the world -- for our own safety, if nothing else."


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