No, but his cow does…
TPM, can you please start captioning article images? When the subject of a headline is a GOP strategist, the photo should be of the strategist, not of some other guy who’s buried in a prepositional phrase in that sentence. If not – well, a caption will clear up any confusion. Does anyone know the rationale for not following standard industry practice on this site?
Member of the against-all-amendments-except-the-second party says what?
One can hope that Nunes will receive a scathing & humiliating response from the court and be made to pay the legal fees for all parties
We’ve been over this before. If you have no reputation to lose, you can’t be defamed.
Don’t worry. Nobody would ever confuse Devin Nunes with a strategist. (Unless being a precious little snowflake who files frivolous lawsuits and expects the Big Bad Government to fight his battles for him is a strategy…)
This Republican strategist seems a little slow on the up tick. Who didn’t think Nunes understood the Constitution and his oath to uphold it in the previous two years? His job as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and the actions that he displayed were all out there for everyone American to see, except for those voters in his district.
TPM requires a higher standard of awareness from its readers than most sites. If you can’t recognize the people TPM writes about from their pictures, you’re probably not ready for TPM.
I completely agree. Journalism design calls for photo captions except when used as illustrations. And even then sometimes…
The lawsuit has spawned additional parody sites, and Devin’s Cow account now has 635,000+ followers.
Of course he doesn’t understand, or perhaps he does but doesn’t care about the Constitution.
Then there is this: (click for the embedded image - it’s classic)
and an off topic story about twitter trolling (photoshopping) a Fox news personality image at the border can be found in this story. It’s a hoot:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-contributor-wears-protective-110455054.html
Remember when Trump sued Bill Maher, didn’t work out so well for our idiot-in-chief.
I assume then that Young Master Nunes does not read the commentary at TPM.
This is just one example. I can guarantee that regardless of how douchey you think you’re entitled to be in your comments, you don’t recognize every person in every photo on TPM. (Daily reader since Bush v Gore here)
Also because the strategist in this case is a woman. But this is just one example of what I think is bad practice generally; in this case it stuck out because they’re not even illustrating the person who’s really the subject of the headline and article. (Understandably since Nunes is the more public figure of the two.)
Remember the Good Ol’ Days when your chances of agreeing with Liz Mair were either slim or fat?
Me too…
Having in my youth written many captions saying things like “[Our Hero] in the Oval Office of the White House with President Jimmy Carter”, and “President Ronald Reagan congratulates [Our Hero] at the Whatever Awards ceremony at the United Nations complex in New York City”, I can assure you that writing captions is not a huge burden, but it is harder than it looks [ which UN building is that room in, and what do you call the little UN building?] and it has many many pitfalls for very small gain. There is just so much to screw up in a highly visible spot that it’s not worth the reward if you’re not trying for a certain high level of journalistic accuracy and completeness.
TPM isn’t here to lay down a record, but to talk about stuff that’s in the record elsewhere.
Pithier and just as accurate.
That’s a good point, it’s not a zero-effort bit of work to add captions. I’d argue though that since the photos only exist to illustrate the people in the story (and aren’t the story themselves) it would be sufficient to say “Ronald Reagan, 2nd from left” and no one would complain (so, less work, though still not zero). Also, they get these images from photo services and presumably get complete captions from those services. There have been examples where an article is about less-common public figures and the photo doesn’t make it clear which of the article’s subjects they’re showing. I’m pretty sure they never show captions, and only on rare occasions have I seen a writer include a reference note in the text of the article after the first mention of someone in the photo (presumably because a photo editor is adding the photo later in the process.)
TPM isn’t here to lay down a record, but to talk about stuff that’s in the record elsewhere.
Regarding this point, Josh’s editorial pieces don’t usually have photos, so this makes sense there. But many of the other articles on the site are written up like traditional news stories, and are accompanied by photos, so it feels to me like those article should follow standard conventions.