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Great letter, Sirocco.

I wrote and as someone who used to be a photo editor I concentrated on the photograph selected as I felt it displayed a very low level of photo-journalistic integrity.

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Sun Apr 16th, 2006 at 11:29:20 AM EST
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It would be a challenge to disagree... According to Maryscott, even the reporter groaned when he heard they had selected that photo.

Here is the front page teaser for the article:

Good grief.

The world's northernmost desert wind.

by Sirocco (sirocco2005ATgmail.com) on Sun Apr 16th, 2006 at 11:38:43 AM EST
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Yes, bad picture - but no surprise. I do remember before the primaries in the US, the WaPo used a picture of Dean where he really looked like a moron, for the articles about him. The day after it was clear that Kerry would be the canditate, they switched to a real nice looking picture of Dean. It's not just the word they use, it't also the pictures and their choice of picture is no accident in my opinion.
by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Apr 16th, 2006 at 11:57:10 AM EST
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What a stinking hit-job. Note the casual way Fink(el) refers to major blogs : "a Web site called Eschaton", etc. Suggesting all this is way out to the fringe somewhere and no one has ever heard of it, but Tintin the intrepid reporter is out there bringing you the news.

I expect more of this kind of thing. I think it reflects journalists and pundits' growing discomfort about blogs and their realization the Fifth Estate can shake up their closed worlds. I may be imagining this, but it also seems to me I'm hearing the strains of: "The left is imposing its discourse and shouting everybody down, we are no longer free..." coming from some of the pipes and drones of the Mighty Wurlitzer.

Keep screaming, Maryscott.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Apr 16th, 2006 at 12:39:08 PM EST
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