• skuzz
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    5 months ago

    Unrelated to the content and scary situation itself, just a general media commentary, why is that WaPo article using a tiny AM radio quality image? It seems many online media companies still live in the age of paper publishing. Now, an image like that converted to CMYK @ 170dpi and run through a Panther would end up looking passable on newsprint, even blown up a bit.

    It’s the Internet future, publish better quality photos. Yet the media wonders why they died. So many thousands of cuts like this.

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      5 months ago

      I imagine WaPo doesn’t have people in random Oregon towns, so they have to take what they can get for photos investors like these

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        5 months ago

        True, but AP newswire internal or social media can probably deliver something. It’s just annoyingly common that they don’t use larger images in a lot of news. Colorado Sun is a good example of getting with the times.