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- Name: Sagepaper
- Location: United States
An only child and service-brat, I was born in Panama. We lived on Indian Reservations when I was two to four-and-a-half -- crucial years for social development. Culturally, I am a mixed-up White Eyes from Mescalero. I began college at fifteen, enjoying a luxurious seven years of rigorous liberal arts education. Since graduating with a B.A. in Psychology, I have avidly read non-fiction, adding enormously to my formal education. Disabled by Tourette's Syndrome and other conditions, I live in Atlanta's suburbia. My father and husband are both physicians, and share a consulting business. (I am very proud of what they do, but I mention their occupations because people cannot seem to move to another small-talk topic if I simply say I am disabled. They must be told an occupation, and will start asking about family members to get one.)
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Sunday, May 22, 2005
Where Have All the Photos Gone?
I can't find any non-advertisement news photographs online today. I have checked major news providers, national papers: here and in Britain, regional newspapers, local newspapers, and even a tiny rural newspaper. The latter no longer has a website. There are no news photos on AOL. On AOL, a news segment failed to load, although there were news segments available at CNN.com. Even sports and entertainment stories have no photos. Those categories are very photo-dependent.
My father says he heard a news story a number of days back saying that there would be new copyright policies among the larger news services. You would have to pay to download some things. Perhaps that is all there is to it.
Why is this radical change in online news coverage NOT a major story? I have found no mention during CNN's Headline News. I have not otherwise watched television today. Still, I would think that America Online would offer an explanation to its members. There are still blue boxes set in the text, where photos would normally be. The blue boxes even contain the photo captions, but no pictures. Similarly, neither my regional nor my local paper offered explanations. My local paper did offer to let you order novelties with a photo imprinted on them, but you could not view apicture to see if you wanted a ballcap from it or not.
Does anyone know why we are in the darkroom?
