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10 December 2013


Labels: Barack Obama, Fidel Castro, Juxtapositions, Nelson Mandela, Sky News, Truncations

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Labels: BBC News, George Osborne, Juxtapositions
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This blog is dedicated to those occasions when great voices of change in our world are caught off-message by the framing of the photo and/or wording of the backdrop.

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