I hit this harder and more in-depth on my blog, but here is today's front page of the Miami Herald.
Do you run this as-is? Color? Black-and-white? Above the fold?
I would have run it on the inside in b/w. Obviously you need a photo for the front, but I would have just used a portrait.
I guess they could have also Photoshopped the blood out of the picture, but then you get into a whole other set of ethical problems.
I'd do it in Black & White ... you're not "hiding" the blood running out of his head, but it could also be mistaken for a shadow from the cop's knee....
IMO.
I agree, they should have gone with a headshot - oh great, there was a bad joke.
What I want to know is how they got away with running a picture of a dildo at the bottom of the front page...
Do like the San Antonio Express News put up some bull thing on the front and bury that story in the last pages with the Foley's and Macy's advertisements
seriously though i just think in my opinion just run it as it is in color.
Wow, they can run that type of photo on the front page? I'd definitely put it on the inside in black & white...
I don't see the point of running that picture. It serves no journalistic purpose.
Oh, wait. It sells papers.
They can run pretty much anything they want as long as it's not obscene (by the community standards).
Okay. Manny brings up a point.
1. Does the Herald run an increased risk of losing subscribers based on their choice of cover photo?
Yes.
2. Do photos themselves drive sales or could you tie it in with the proximity, celebrity and newsworthiness (happening in the lobby of the newspaper) all in one issue?
Well, it DID happen in the Herald's office lobby. If they did want to tone it down on their own behalf it's not like they had to send a photographer half way across town to shoot new pictures.
It doesn't get much more local and hard-hitting than a ex-city commissioner blowing his brains out in your office becuase of a story the alt-paper in town broke on yet another scandal under your watch.
I'd run it the way the same way they did.
I have a question ... Are their front page photos always in color?
keep it B&W
put it on the inside page
make it much smaller.
but you know what, the Hearld did just wat they wanted to do with that, they have us talking about it!
That's what I was thinking also
It wasn't too incredibly graphic in my opinion.
I would've gone with a smaller version of the pic side by side with a portrait of the guy, front page above the fold.
if that was Mexico City instead of Miami the photg's would've been 2 feet from the poor dude when they snapped that pic and then we would've really had somethign to debate about.
Yes. Any photoshop of a photo is considered highly unethical as it changes the very nature of capturing the image.
and do you have a link to this article, I would at least like to read about the dude who took his head off.
As of right now, the Herald has changed their home page to another photo - it was previously the same photo as the newspaper's front page, but now it is a portrait and grieving people.
side note:
shuttle's fuel tank looks like a ginat red vibrator falling from the sky.
Going off their last week of front pages. Yes.
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i see the invasion of the Frankenfish
http://joeruiz47.blogspot.com
I also address a similar situation that The University Star had to go through last year.
I think the portrait is what should have been run to begin with. It seems FAR more appropriate than the picture they ran. But thats just my feeling.
That's what you're trying to figure out when this decision comes.
What does your audience think about things like this and does your audience want this?
Like I said, I think it's 50-50 leaning towards "no" that the Express-News runs it the same way.
I don't think they even ran photos of Saddam's sons' autopsies on the front page (I think it was inside with a B&W).
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