02.08.08 5:00 AM CST
• Media
• John D. Thomas
The three pictures above the fold on the National Edition of Wednesday’s New York Times gave us a double take. One showed Barack giving a peck to a middle-aged African-American woman, another portrayed Hillary in a bear hug with a well-tressed white woman and the last showed John McCain firmly holding the shoulders and staring into the eyes of a young man who looked like he just got back from a tour in Iraq. To any student of the news, it’s always interesting to examine how the candidates are portrayed in pictures to uncover what aspects of their character are being portrayed or critiqued inadvertently. In these scandalously unsubtle photos, though, the trio is visually stereotyped beyond any doubt. It’s a shame that this diverse group was pictured in such a predictable way, and that a paper of such magnitude could reinforce the stereotypes this election is actually trying to diminish.
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Well said! One Romney volunteer kept the steretyping tradition up by complaining at Mitt's drop out speech (excuse me, 'Campaign suspension speech') that things were 'bad because now we are stuck with two left wingers in the Republican party.'
One generously wonders what planet of left wing - Spanish Civil war veteran- premature anti-fascists Haymarket massacre victims Huckabee landed from...