Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch wrote: > > At 07:31 PM 4/5/99 -0200, you wrote: > > Man sues NY Times magazines. A "stock" photo of a black man walking > >down a crowed street was used on the cover to illustrate a "negative" story > > New York Times Sunday Magazine had a story about, I seem to remember, poor > black people. They found a stock photo of a black man standing in a crowd > on a street. He was actually a pretty wealthy person. He didn't like being > portrayed as poor, so he sued. The magazine lost because it portrayed him > in a false light. Which goes to show how people who make simplistic choices > set themselves up for a penalty. They wanted a picture of a black man as a > symbol, and when that symbolism was not accurate, they paid the consequences. > > Eric Welch > St. Joseph, MO > http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > > I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it. Pretty close. As I recall, he was portrayed as representing the new black middle-class. Whereas in truth he was rather upper class and resented being downgraded so to speak. You're right, Eric, in that he was cast as a class symbol. - -- Carl Socolow http://members.tripod.com/SocPhoto/