Northrup pieced together the situation in which Mccurry photographed Sharbat Gula, and offers
some startling revelations that should perhaps have been obvious to National Geographic‘s editors, and to the rest of us.
Edward Willis Scripps, founder of the Scripps newspaper chain, once said that the role of the press in America is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,” stated former White House press secretary Mike Mccurry.