A few days ago I posted an entry about a photograph (see above) that was associated with an article about the price of gold futures in relation to the (first) rate cut by the Fed...I happened to notice it only because the Google News page that cited the article happened to have a thumbnail of this very photo beside it and the two didn't seem to fit...and I thought to myself: "This is kinda weird...let me check it out."
So I did and what you see above is what I saw...and that was two days ago...and the photo is STILL there...
See for yourself (assuming you didn't catch my entry from two days ago):
Makes me wonder...are these people (at these so-called media outlets) a) visually impaired; b) careless; c) trying to be "funny"; d) trying to sabotage the entity that employs them by making them out to be utterly ridiculous vis a vis things such as this? e) all of the above; f) and I know this is not considered "P.C." but are they (dare I say) stupid?
Meaning do they have an IQ which is equal to their age subtracted from their shoe size (yes, that is right...your output from that equation should be a negative number)...
I thought it was bizarre, possibly funny, definitely weird and completely idiotic a few days ago...
My opinion today is something slightly more negative than all of the above put together multiplied by the square of the sum total of the collective shoe size of each component member of the combined journalistic and editorial staff of (Conde Nast) Portfolio.com.
If you look closely you see that the obviously lazy staff at Portfolio.com blatantly pilfered the article from the newswire given the fact that they had to give credit to the original entity that wrote the story, in this case, Associated Press.
I'm imagining someone sitting behind a computer whose single and sole purpose in life is to pull stories as they come on to the newswire...they then do a cut and paste and they decide it is relevant and appropriate to paste a photo of a black man in the article, which, BY THE WAY, clearly doesn't go with the article...maybe they were trying to communicate something subliminally...but how can we really be sure what they meant to convey?
I'm not a mind-reader...
I don't get it...am I missing something?
All I want to know is how do these two things go together?
Doesn't anyone check their work any more? Don't these people have someone looking over their work before it goes on a major website backed by one of the biggest modern publishing entities?
I am really curious to know how stuff like this happens...
Seems like there is more than mere carelessness at work here...I haven't quite figured out what else to attribute it to but give me a bit more time to ponder this and I will let you know what else I come up with...
In the meanwhile, here's a photo of something that epitomizes carelessness and lack of oversight:
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