Brian Edwards on NZ Herald’s photos
In a list of bouquets and brickbats, Brian Edwards notes a brickbat:
To the new zealand Herald which accompanied a report today on the national Party Conference with deliberately chosen, highly unflattering photographs of paula bennett, Hekia Parata and john key (with double chins) and a laboured attempt at a humorous caption. There can be no journalistic defence for this sort of offensive demeaning of public figures in a news story.
It did seem rather stupid.