AIRPLANE CRASH IN NEW YORK, AND NO REAL INFOGRAPHICS IN THE FRONT PAGE OF THE BIG ONES
It was big news in the world media.
TV cable news channels did a superb job as "breaking news" media.
The newspapers were sleeping again.
Poor front pages in the big ones.
And no real infographics at in the front page.
When you have watched the crash almost live and repeated again and again so many time, the last thing that you want to see in your paper is a front page with pictures and headlines from the time that we were in the frontline of the news.
Infographics, great infographics, will provide a more clear explanation, understanding and context for the accident, but editors and photo editors did not give us the opportunity to "see" the real story.
I am sorry for the infographists that were sent to the inside pages, not always with too much space for the kind of news that deserve as much space as possible.
Words still rule.
Pictures, with very poor editing, won.
And infographics lost.
Next.
TV cable news channels did a superb job as "breaking news" media.
The newspapers were sleeping again.
Poor front pages in the big ones.
And no real infographics at in the front page.
When you have watched the crash almost live and repeated again and again so many time, the last thing that you want to see in your paper is a front page with pictures and headlines from the time that we were in the frontline of the news.
Infographics, great infographics, will provide a more clear explanation, understanding and context for the accident, but editors and photo editors did not give us the opportunity to "see" the real story.
I am sorry for the infographists that were sent to the inside pages, not always with too much space for the kind of news that deserve as much space as possible.
Words still rule.
Pictures, with very poor editing, won.
And infographics lost.
Next.
1 Comments:
I can't understand why is still so dificult for editors to accept a graphic as the principal illustration for the frotpage. They love graphics inside, big ones if he new is big, most of times it doesn´t matter if a graphic is needed, but they'are allergic when we're talking about selling the paper with a graphic on the front. I suppose that we need big newspapers accept it, and then all others will be following them... Is scaring being original
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