Summary Of The Perfect Picture By James Alexander Thom

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In the passage “The Perfect Picture “by James Alexander Thom. Mr. Thom talks about a day in his journalistic carrier, where he encountered the truly tragic scenario of a devastated old man, who had just lost his granddaughter in a misfortunate accident. Then, he talks about how that day he “recognized the makings of an award-winning photograph”. Mr. Thom mentions the fact that, his “professional conscience “, told him to take that picture. Yet, his moral conscience overruled. “Every day on newscasts and in the papers, we see pictures of people in extreme conditions of grief and despair “.”Human suffering has become a spectator sport.” I think that Mr. Thom made the correct decision morally in not taking that picture, although it would’ve benefited