In June 1963, most Americans couldn’t find Vietnam on a map. That same year, America’s involvement in the war ended. When President Richard Nixon wondered if the photo was fake, Ut commented, “The horror of the Vietnam War recorded by me did not have to be fixed.” In 1973 the Pulitzer committee agreed and awarded him its prize. The photo quickly became a cultural shorthand for the atrocities of the Vietnam War and joined Malcolm Browne’s Burning Monk and Eddie Adams’ Saigon Execution as defining images of that brutal conflict. It also sparked newsroom debates about running a photo with nudity, pushing many publications, including the New York Times, to override their policies. Ut’s photo of the raw impact of conflict underscored that the war was doing more harm than good. So with the help of colleagues he got her transferred to an American facility for treatment that saved her life.
She was screaming, ‘Too hot! Too hot!’” Ut took Kim Phuc to a hospital, where he learned that she might not survive the third-degree burns covering 30 percent of her body. “I took a lot of water and poured it on her body. Ut wondered, Why doesn’t she have clothes? He then realized that she had been hit by napalm. As the Vietnamese photographer took pictures of the carnage, he saw a group of children and soldiers along with a screaming naked girl running up the highway toward him. On June 8, 1972, Associated Press photographer Nick Ut was outside Trang Bang, about 25 miles northwest of Saigon, when the South Vietnamese air force mistakenly dropped a load of napalm on the village. This was not the case with 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc. We've gone through the list to show all of the highest-earning female celebrities that make the top 100 of 2020 and explain just how they've accumulated it in these strange times.The faces of collateral damage and friendly fire are generally not seen. The women that are on the list are also overwhelmingly white, with the entire top five not featuring a woman of colour. Another woman doesn't appear on the list until position 12.
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Though a female leads the list, it is overwhelmingly male with Jenner's brother-in-law Kanye West ranking in second place having earned $170m (£134m) and then a series of sports stars following to complete the top five: Roger Federer, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. all I see are a number of inaccurate statements and unproven assumptions.' Jenner responded seemingly flabbergasted, denying the claims and telling her Twitter followers: 'I thought this was a reputable site. The list this year is topped by a woman - Kylie Jenner, which comes one week after the very same magazine alleged that the beauty mogul had exaggerated her earnings to inflate her status as a billionaire ( Forbes previously ascribed her as the youngest 'self-made' billionaire and have since rescinded that title). The money magazine released its annual list of the 100 highest-earning celebrities in 2020 on Thursday.
The Coronavirus pandemic which has put a stop to business-as-usual has seen celebrities collective earnings drop by $200m (£158m), according to Forbes.īut yet, despite a global health pandemic and other horrors unfolding across the road, celebrities are still earning billions of dollars (the collective total is estimated to be $6.1bn so despite the $200m drop, they're all good).