Pigs fly: New York Times calls photo choice of murderer's mother 'regrettable'
I spoke on Monday afternoon to two senior editors at The Times. Both agreed that the photo was a regrettable choice. The dominant image with an article should reflect the overall point of the article and the reason for its newsworthiness.
“This did not represent the essence of the story, which was clearly the moment of the Israeli soldier being stabbed,” said Michele McNally, the assistant managing editor in charge of photography. She said a less-senior picture editor chose the photograph, along with one representing what she considered the other side of the story, which showed an Israeli police officer at the crime scene.
The selection of the Palestinian mother’s image with the article was an effort to achieve balance, but such an effort was not appropriate in this case, Ms. McNally said. In the print editions of the newspaper, the two photographs were published on an inside page with the Palestinian photograph above the other. On the website and in other digital presentations, the Palestinian photograph was by far the more dominant image and remains so.
It was only later in the news cycle that photographs of the soldier’s funeral — which would have been an appropriate choice for a dominant image — became available, she said. (A photograph of the victim would also have been appropriate, she said.)
“We should have waited for that or substituted it once it came,” she said.Well, yeah. But on what page was this story published and on what page was the original story published? You have to get things right the first time, and until the Times gets rid of their deep-seated bias against Israel and Jews who don't look and think like them, that won't happen.
Labels: anti-Israel media bias, liberal media bias, New York Times, Palestinian terrorism
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:14 AM
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What, you want unbiased journalistic integrity from the NY Times?! Don't hold your breath, Carl! :-(
Reminds me of Dan Rather's extremely reluctant admission about the forged anti-Bush military officer's fitness report, used to try to sink Dubya's election: "Fake but accurate."
Some of us have a memory, Dan, and we know your entire journalistic career was based on lies, from your phony Vietnam US Army village-burning film; your phony film of the mujaheddin camp in Afghanistan, when you weren't even within 50 miles of the Pakistan-Afghan border. Reminds me of the Teddy Roosevelt quote about a certain corrupt NY politician, "I could carve a man with more character and backbone out of a banana."
Liberal media: all scum, all the time. Just makes me wonder, how much outrageous lies, propaganda did they get away with before the Internet? For example, Dan Rather's counterfeit Officer's Fitness Report on Dubya, now proven to have been produced with Microsoft Word representing a date before PCs and Word existed. Lying schweinhundts!
Now, I'll have to go take my blood pressure medicine!
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