Unrelated to the content and scary situation itself, just a general media commentary, why is that WaPo article using a tiny AM radio quality image? It seems many online media companies still live in the age of paper publishing. Now, an image like that converted to CMYK @ 170dpi and run through a Panther would end up looking passable on newsprint, even blown up a bit.
It’s the Internet future, publish better quality photos. Yet the media wonders why they died. So many thousands of cuts like this.
Unrelated to the content and scary situation itself, just a general media commentary, why is that WaPo article using a tiny AM radio quality image? It seems many online media companies still live in the age of paper publishing. Now, an image like that converted to CMYK @ 170dpi and run through a Panther would end up looking passable on newsprint, even blown up a bit.
It’s the Internet future, publish better quality photos. Yet the media wonders why they died. So many thousands of cuts like this.
I imagine WaPo doesn’t have people in random Oregon towns, so they have to take what they can get for photos investors like these