Thursday, May 29, 2008

okay, you're a major media outlet and you decide you want to write a major media article about how unsafe the city is.  using your standard major media techniques and sitting at your major media desk, you go through your stock photography (natch!) to find images which really drive home the point.  remember your plot points: summer, crime, danger, violence, neighborhood.

i'm frankly rather mystefied over what the editors of the post are seeking to convey here.  and i'm not being deliberately obtuse to make a point.  is the person on the bike supposed to represent danger, or be an embodiment of violence?  is the issue that he's riding on the sidewalk while families are playing?  that makes no sense.  i'm not sure how the photo helps to validate the "plenty of evidence" assertion.  what is going on here?

5/29/2008 10:01:15 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [4]  | 
5/29/2008 9:45:34 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
Maybe the cyclist is in danger rather than a danger.
Roy
6/6/2008 2:45:38 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
I think it's just supposed to be representative of your average run of the mill neighborhood, but it is the Washington ComPost, anything is possible.
6/12/2008 2:46:30 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
Maybe he's smoking a glory cig because he made it through that hula-hoop guantlet. You can't zoom in on stock photos. The obvious danger is those damn girls and their hula-hoops. Poor guy...
Jacobson
6/23/2008 5:40:16 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
it does look like an adult on a kid's bike
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