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This photo (above) shows the full story behind the so-called ‘refugees at risk of drowning’ stories in our media, with babies being held up high, out of the deep water. As the man on the top far right shows, far from being at risk of drowning, the ‘swimmers’ are in mere feet of water, and could stand up and walk out on to the beach if they wanted to.
What we were actually shown on television and the papers was just the area within the white box. In any kind of theatre, context is everything.