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NPR: Ohioans feeling the economic pinch

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by poindexter, Jul 18, 2008.

  1. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    That apology for the photo is silly and is just meant to sound good and is worth a thread, but that's now how this started.
     
  2. Twoback

    Twoback Active Member

    See, these are the sorts of problems you get when jobs are exported to third-world countries.
     
  3. writing irish

    writing irish Active Member

    A good photo would have been a picture of one or both women doing something around their house or neighborhood- pretty much anything besides them just standing there looking at the camera.
     
  4. Are you advocating cannibalism?
     
  5. beardpuller

    beardpuller Active Member

    Thank God, Ace. I was reading this thread wondering if this is really what we've come to. Good post.
     
  6. Oggiedoggie

    Oggiedoggie Well-Known Member

    This is a problem with media outlets and the Internet in general.

    When you ask (require) a radio reporter to take photos or video the images are most often going to be substandard. The same would happen if you asked a photographer to write a story to go with photos he or she had taken. They could probably do it, but a reporter's work would probably be better.

    Yet, with a company Web site, reporters are asked to go out on assignment as though they were working for a newspaper, radio station, television station, BLOG! and who knows what else.

    As a result the overall quality of work published, in most cases, is diminished.

    Another problem I have with the NPR ombudsman's stance is her attitude that the photo didn't help the story that NPR was trying to tell. The women are obviously fat almost any photo is going to show that. So, just what is NPR trying to hide? Either find a skinny source or report what is there. Obesity among lower-income people is rampant. Why not make that a part of the story? Good, healthy food often costs more than processed high-fat food. Report well, and there is nothing to hide.
     
  7. Bob Cook

    Bob Cook Active Member

    The photo wasn't a help, but the bigger problem is that there is a large subset of America that figures if you're on any sort of government assistance, you're a lazy, terrible person, and that if you're fat it must be because of how much you eat, not because of what you eat. One wonders if there would be more understanding if the two women had starvation-bloated stomachs covered with flies, yet still refused food stamps. Eh, probably not.
     
  8. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Never graduated high school, never held a job, grotesquely obese. I don't think its a stretch to think that the term "lazy" can be applied to the mom.

    The daughter, on the other hand, actually graduated high school, and has held a couple of restaurant jobs. She's a regular Thomas Alva Edison in comparison.
     
  9. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Maybe the photographer tried.
     
  10. writing irish

    writing irish Active Member

    NPR's photographers work just as hard as all the other photographers, but don't get the same amount of coverage in your sports section.
     
  11. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    You only cover us when we're fat!
     
  12. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    NPR does it again.

    The title of the article is:
    A Young Mom Resists A Cycle Of Failure

    Here is how she resists a cycle of failure:
    a) get pregnant
    b) drop out of school
    c) get pregnant again
    d) marry a guy she doesn't love
    e) get expelled from GED class
    f) husband lands in jail
    g) gets three pitbulls named "Peaches"

    Only NPR can see those set of facts and call it "resisting a cycle of failure"
    http://www.npr.org/2011/07/26/138546792/a-young-mom-resists-a-cycle-of-failure
     
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