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As a journalist, I disagree. In this case the technique is used more to portray the way Holmes is perceived publicly (a "neurotic and delusional powerful woman out of control" -- not my opinion, just what the photo conveys), than to add a spin to a story that's already independently and factually spun in a very clear direction.

The use FoxNews does of this photo-picking with President Obama or liberal politicians is much worse. Or check the tabloids, they're masters at that.

This one? Just fine. I also want to point out that the picture is all but an outtake. Photography agencies publish photos like this on their online collections all the time, they won't discard them. Exactly because they know outlets may pick them for a story where they would fit.



>>As a journalist, I disagree. In this case the technique is used more to portray the way Holmes is perceived publicly

As a non journalist this is what I call manipulation.


Then so is the text.


Do you feel picking a photo to match the caption is more manipulative than picking a caption to match the photo?


> the way Holmes is perceived publicly

...which presumably is almost entirely based on what they read or see in the media?


Do you know any other way of forming a public opinion about someone you've never met and probably never will?


There is a difference between news reporting and manipulating public perception. Let the public make up their mind, just give them the dry facts.


Nope, which is exactly why I expressed a high level of certainty in my earlier statement.




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