Okay, ISG report day mini-contest. I’ve always enjoyed one of the unwritten conventions of news photography, particularly online and on the TV shows. When the story is bad for the president you find a picture of him caught off guard, embarrassed, looking stupid, whatever. Frequently, the picture is totally unconnected to the story at hand. You just need one that shows the guy expressing the emotion the editors think he must be experiencing because of the story they’re publishing. Back during the days of Monica, I first noticed how on CNN, whenever they were reporting news that was bad for Clinton they had a stock ‘sad’ Clinton picture, with a sort of ‘man, am I bummin’ look on his face. I think the picture I first posted below was CNN’s best effort so far to communicate in a photograph what the editors maybe couldn’t say in the text.
But there must be better ones. Send in your best entry.
