What's wrong with this picture from an NPR storm story?

[kenny]

Sorry @missy there's no cat to find.



Source:

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/03/g-s1-58088/deadly-spring-storms-continue-to-batter-the-south-and-midwest

 

[LilAlex]

I did not click on the link but I think somebody gathered the toys up and set them there in a bin -- could be staged but maybe a neighbor being nice? Certainly more pathos with a muddy T. rex. Wow, what devastation.

 

[kenny]

BINGO!
You win a check for $1 million from that Musky dude.

This example may seem like a minor nitpick, but there are photojournalism guidelines that news orgs follow, well, the reputable ones.
I'm surprised the photographer submitted this pic and NPR's editors approved its publication.

Code of Ethics for Visual Journalists

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This story is about the storm's severity.
The pic would be okay if the story was how neighbors pull together after a crisis.

Notice how the wind was strong enough to demolish the house, but too weak to disturb any little toys in the tub ... not to mention the toy tub and Dino appear to be the only things that happened to land on that wall.

 

[missy]

No surprise on my end about this situation. The media is not to be trusted. Not in the slightest

@kenny aww no worries about the lack of cats
Here you go

 

[kenny]

?????????

Spoiler

 

[missy]

?????????

Spoiler

You got it Kenny!!! Good job!!!

Spoiler

 

[kenny]

I can find 'em.
I just don't grab 'em.

 

[missy]

I'll never be a good politician.

And that is something you should be proud of IMO
Politics is a dirty dirty dirty business
Even when someone who is ethical and moral goes into politics
(and one has to question why anyone would want to but that is a thread for another day if Ella allows)
They get dirty
They have to "play the game"
And they become as criminal as all the rest of the politicians
IMO

 

[SparklieBug]

Didn't read the article, but I did find the cat!

 

[Matata]

Dinosaurs are extinct

 

[LilAlex]

This example may seem like a minor nitpick, but there are photojournalism guidelines that news orgs follow, well, the reputable ones.
I'm surprised the photographer submitted this pic and NPR's editors approved its publication.

Certainly possible but someone other than the photog could have done that -- a thoughtful neighbor who wanted to keep things out of the mud. My wife would have done that for sure: "Look, someone's poor little dino..." I would think a staged photo would be a little more haphazard-looking in the toy tableau.

 

[kenny]

Certainly possible but someone other than the photog could have done that -- a thoughtful neighbor who wanted to keep things out of the mud. My wife would have done that for sure: "Look, someone's poor little dino..." I would think a staged photo would be a little more haphazard-looking in the toy tableau.

Granted.

Regardless of who put them there, either the photographer (which would be staging) or a neighbor (which is not staging), if I were the photojournalist I would not have even shot the pic, because some viewers may think it was staging.

I thought it would go without saying that good neighbors are a wonderful thing!

Good neighbors during crises is an important and heartwarming thing, but is a different story.
This photo would belong in that story, not one reporting how dangerous the storm was.