Had we gotten the rights, U.S. News would, and should, have used those pictures. It was a compelling event with national consequences. But tabloid-style behavior by the mainstream press is not just confined to coverage of cataclysmic events. It applies to personality coverage, as well. Even if you don't read the tabs, you probably know about Frank Gifford's hotel rendezvous last spring with a woman who wasn't his wife, Kathie Lee.
All journalists feast on hypocrites.
For both men, the story was juicy even without a picture, but the photograph was the clincher. Now, many people believe journalists are the hypocrites who need to be brought down, and it's our pictures that most gall. In too many cases, by our choices of images as well as how we get them, we prove our readers right. Inc. All rights reserved.