Ads mar cover
Lately, the Rocky Mountain News’ cover photos have been mutilated by stick-on advertising.
Professional photojournalists (I was one for the Colorado Statesman for a few years) know the upper right area of any illustration is where the eye reaches a conclusion about the quality of a photo.
Why, then, don’t you reconsider making that location the place where visual clutter interrupts the great work of your photographers?
Peeling off the sticker ads only removes some of the ink, yet I am sick of peeling advertising to see the photos on your covers as they were intended to appear.
Why doesn’t the Rocky leave a blank spot where the headlines appear for the sticky ads if it insists on allowing them rather than allowing tacky advertising randomly slapped over the cover photos?
Steve Schweitzberger, Littleton
I suspect that every professional photojournalist knows that the reason for "allowing tacky advertising" on the front of the paper is money.
Posted by kmm on August 7, 2007 01:36 PM