June 17, 2005
Slow News Day
The front page of the New York Post today has a somewhat blurry photo of an 11-year-old girl. Was she murdered? Nope. Kidnapped? Nuh-uh. Save someone’s life? Try again.
Bad yearbook picture? Bingo.
A Queens family is so outraged about their daughter’s unflattering yearbook photo that they’re demanding all 200 copies of the book be recalled, so that a better photo may be inserted.
"For the rest of her life, she's going to have to be ashamed of that horrible picture,” the girl’s mother said, adding that the daughter has been “crying nonstop” since the photo was published on Monday.
So many questions here: WHY is this is a front-page story? Doesn’t everyone hate their yearbook photo? Don’t most people get over such things within a day or two, or at least in time for the next year’s yearbook photo? Who, as an adult, regularly looks at their 6th grade yearbook? And isn’t putting the photo on the front-page of a newspaper about a thousand times more embarrassing for the girl than the relatively limited yearbook run? Will her parents now demand a recall of the Post?
The mother, who on the basis of this article should probably be sentenced to counseling, calls the school’s handling of the matter a “coverup,” and speculates that “Who knows, one day she might be famous or have a lot of money and someone could blackmail her with that picture.” Celebrities blackmailed for large sums of money with yearbook photos- yea, happens all the time.
Guess that's the difference between the Times and Post. The Times today has a harrowing story about a girl from Queens whose family got caught up in terrorism. The Post would rather discuss the girl from Queens who doesn't look good in the yearbook.
Posted by Stephen Silver at June 17, 2005 02:17 PMExactly. My first thought when I saw that cover was, "I'm not sure which I'm more skeeved by: The Post or the parent?"
Reminds me of this other story about a parent who wants a yearbook recalled because of a photo, which I read few weeks ago. It's a little off-topic because these photos are being called offensive, but I have a comment on it, if you care. The poll in the article asks if you'd be offended by these photos. Even if people responded 'Yes, they are in bad taste,' why does that have you mean you have to get your way? People make missteps and inadvertently offend others. It happens. Why can't people just get over it? (I suppose there's degrees of offendedness that I'm not taking into account.)
Posted by: C at June 17, 2005 03:15 PMwow. Just insane.
Posted by: red at June 17, 2005 05:29 PMif being the opposite of photogenic were grounds to recall a yearbook, every edition ever of the Brandeis University Archon would have to be recalled.
Posted by: LilB at June 17, 2005 07:30 PMI give the NY Post credit for one of the wittiest stories I've ever seen. They put her crappy photo on the FRON PAGE!!! hahahahahah!
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