For decades, mainstream media claimed they were the ultimate guardians of truth. One recent scandal exposes that claim as a total lie.
The Associated Press, a name long considered synonymous with journalistic integrity, now finds its reputation under fire — over one of the most iconic images of the Vietnam War.
Netflix’s new documentary The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo has dropped a bombshell. The film challenges decades of reporting about the famous “Napalm Girl” photograph.
The image, showing 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc fleeing a napalm attack, has been etched into American history as a defining anti-war moment. For more than fifty years, the public believed AP photographer Nick Ut captured the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo on June 8, 1972, near the South Vietnamese village of Trảng Bàng.
But the documentary tells a very different story. It argues that a freelance Vietnamese photographer, Nguyễn Thành Nghệ, actually snapped the photo — and that the AP claimed credit for his work.
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