04-11-2017, 07:27 PM
Where did you see the photo? was it in a publication or are you watching the Reuters newsfeed?
The reason I ask is that you may be blaming reuters for something they did not do. Media outlets seldom use the full caption material a photographer provides. It is edited down and reworded by a desk-editor who just wants to fill a given space or get it online as fast as possible. I have had captions under my photos that in no way resembled the information I sent with the image. Yet the public reads it, knows it's wrong and I get the blackeye.
So don't assume that the photographer or Reuters was wrong or incomplete. They may have been, but without seeing the raw feed that could be completely incorrect. If it came from the newsfeed, then yes, I fully agree that is a poor caption. I would have been asking questions and calling my photographer to task.
Now, you know WHY that photo was taken? precisely because it is different. The old adage than a dog biting a man isn't news, but a man biting a dog is still holds true. It isn't a vast anti-Jewish conspiracy, it's simply interesting. I would have sent one of my staffers out to it in a heartbeat (and hopefully they would have come back with a better image than that one).
The reason I ask is that you may be blaming reuters for something they did not do. Media outlets seldom use the full caption material a photographer provides. It is edited down and reworded by a desk-editor who just wants to fill a given space or get it online as fast as possible. I have had captions under my photos that in no way resembled the information I sent with the image. Yet the public reads it, knows it's wrong and I get the blackeye.
So don't assume that the photographer or Reuters was wrong or incomplete. They may have been, but without seeing the raw feed that could be completely incorrect. If it came from the newsfeed, then yes, I fully agree that is a poor caption. I would have been asking questions and calling my photographer to task.
Now, you know WHY that photo was taken? precisely because it is different. The old adage than a dog biting a man isn't news, but a man biting a dog is still holds true. It isn't a vast anti-Jewish conspiracy, it's simply interesting. I would have sent one of my staffers out to it in a heartbeat (and hopefully they would have come back with a better image than that one).