Pictures That Say 1000 Words
By Hal Brown
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Updated Dec. 19:
As Elon Musk and Donald Trump compete for headlines with their self-defeating bizarre behavior I watch how editors decide to illustrate their stories. Today I found a opening page story for Elon Musk Posts Twitter Poll Asking If He Should Step Down As CEO on HUFFPOST. It is no longer the top of the page story so you can't the it online the way I did.
It fits right in with the theme of the following story. Of all the photos of Musk they could have used they found one where his gaze was directed upward as if he was looking at the headline. For posterity, here it is:
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The symbolism of this above photo was lost when the story moved down the page because while his gave was up the title was under the much smaller photo. It happens to be to the left of another Musk article which happens to be about Mastodon which is the platform I now am active on.
Below is my original blog story:
This was the top story on the HUFFPOST website this morning linking to this article:
I don't know whether it was an actual photograph of was photoshopped and made into a dark silhouette.
I did a Google Image search and found the photo was used several times before:
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Whether it was photoshopped or not I think the black background was added because most people who are photographed have a background behind them.
As I write this the top of the site article on HUFFPOST is about Trump's malevolent doppelgänger Elon Musk for this article. It isn't nearly as dramatic as the Trump illustration:
For example, it was used to illustrate a New York Times June 9, 2022 article.There are so many photos of Trump and Musk showing such a range of emotions for editors to choose from to illustrate articles. Editors do not decide which to use by accident.