This is the way my lead article at FrontPage Magazine this weekend appears on FP’s main page. The article makes the case that the mass legal and illegal immigration we are receiving from Mexico is not just a matter of a bunch of individuals entering our country as individuals to seek better lives for themselves, but is part of a war being waged by the Mexican nation as a whole against our nation, a war orchestrated and led by the Mexican state and supported by all levels of Mexican society.

I also want to point out how well the photo used by FrontPage’s editors works with the article’s title, “The Second Mexican War” (which they wrote), and with the “teaser” line from the article’s text (which they also chose), “War does not have to consist of armed conflict.” The reader reads the teaser line, and then looks up at the photo of unarmed illegals walking in a long file across the desert into the U.S., and then looks again at the title saying that this is war, and it all sinks in. The combination of words and image is powerful. This was a very skillful piece of editing.


Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 19, 2006 08:57 PM | Send