I thought this front page was excellent — very effective. Simple and powerful.
The headline on the website reads, “She sat down & stood tall.”
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Derek, I thought that was an effective A-1 Tab, too. But what have readers been saying? I could imagine a fairly vocal few who might be offended that you chose to recall Parks with a mug shot, even with the supportive subhed pushing the jump.
Hmm. I haven’t heard any complaints, but they wouldn’t come in to me, either. (I had nothing to do with any of the Parks coverage).
With headlines like, “Her act of courage changed America” and “Defiance defined a noble cause,” I can’t imagine anyone but the most hypersensitive raising a fuss.
P.S.: Newsday’s front page was very good, too. I love tabloids.
P.P.S.: Well, we got at least one complaint:
Well said, but I have to disagree … it’s a mugshot, yes, but still a dignified photo of Parks, IMHO. She’s well-dressed, well-groomed, facing a difficult situation with equanimity. And the reason she was a national figure was because of an arrest, so the photo makes sense to me.
I knew the other shoe would fall. As much as I liked the irony (in a tab!) of juxtaposing the mugshot with the kind epitaph, I knew there would be many opposed to anything so subtle or effective.