NPR: Ohioans feeling the economic pinch

Fostoria=shithole. I used to have to drive through it on assignemnts and on my way home. Yuck. It's like eastern Kentucky without the mountains, but just as much meth.

 

Tiffin makes fun of Fostoria.

 

These ladies are feeling the same pinch down south.

 

Fostoria in the news again!

http://www.reviewtimes.com/Issues/2008/Jul/31/ar_news_073108_story4.asp?d=073108_story4,2008,Jul,31&c=n

 

For a second there I thought the paper got the dateline wrong.

 

http://www.npr.org/ombudsman/2008/08/no_matter_the_medium_every.html

A response from NPR on the photos used on the website for this story.

NPR comes off looking incredibly out-of-touch on this, IMO
". . .both of whom are overweight by American standards"??

 

Personally, I'd rather make fun of stupid GM executives or witless government bureaucrats than overweight, poor people.

You guys have a blast, though.

 

It's little remarks like that that will get you un-invited to this weekend's Scoff at the Stupid and Make Fun of Meth Mouth Party at my place this weekend. I guess you're still invited, but consider your invitation probationary at this point.

 

I find humor in the juxtoposition of their obesity and their "plight" to eat. As well as NPR's ultra-pc stance with stuff like "obese by America's standards" and hand-wringing over the action of the people in the pictures:
"Two people standing side by side is not representative of the kind of journalism that one expects from NPR," said Irby. "There is likely a lack of sophistication among the producers and editors involved in visual decisions."


If that makes me a bad person, so be it.

 

Poin, I wasn't taking a shot at you.

As for NPR's response, it was predictably self-flagellatory in tone, but the photo was indeed a pretty crappy one.

 

Oh I know, I was responding to Ace.

btw, what could the women have been doing to constitute a "good" photo?