What do the Paris Hilton Squad car and the famous Vietnamese napalm victim photo have in common?

andrew sullivan ^ | 6/7/07

[finnman69]

Same photographer. BELIEVE IT OR NOT.

Nick Ut

[Publius6961]

That’s a long way to fall...

[finnman69]

bizarre, and agreed

[Quix]

What a starkly naked contrast in women!

. . . in life experiences and in needs.

[thegreatbeast]

Fall? Ut is undoubtedly making more money and feeling a whole lot safer nowadays. If he wanted to cover wars, he could do so.

[SittinYonder]

He does good work. He certainly captured powerful images of emotion. Paris may be a crybaby idiot, but that shouldn’t detract from the excellent skills of the photographer. Or, you know, the lucky shutter timing ;-)

[Chode]

i wish that skank could see both pictures and be ask which one of them had a right to cry and which one didn't???

look... it's that famous Chihuahua with it's pet SKANK!!!

[windcliff]

ping

[Old 300]

Little-known fact: the Asian girl named Kim Phuk was injured in a napalm strike by the Viet Nam Air Force (VNAF), not the USAF. Propagandists didn't let that get in their way, however.

[healy61]

I did not know that. Thank you. Healy

[weegee]

The photos of Paris Hilton, shot by photographers acting as celebrity papparazzi, were nothing but pure media schadenfreude (a German word meaning 'pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune')