One Press Association photographer and one window-smashing anarchist will have received a surprise this evening:
Even the Daily Express gives the image prominence …
… next to a larger picture of Carol Vorderman, of course!
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One Press Association photographer and one window-smashing anarchist will have received a surprise this evening:
Even the Daily Express gives the image prominence …
… next to a larger picture of Carol Vorderman, of course!
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Actually, sorry to be a pedant (not really!), but the Guardian has a slightly different image.
@RichS: Yeah, I noticed that. Would be interesting to find out whether that’s the same photographer or one alongside him/her.
Sod the riot, I’m more interested in the Cream Cake Diet – AT LAST, it is here!
Thank the lord for the Express.
The Guardian have photoshopped the other guy out of the image, that’s all.
Nah, the guy’s handa are in different possitions on the Guardian one: it’s a different photo. Perhaps the next in a series?
More perpendicular, too, with more fire showing under his kicking leg. Maybe he was standing to the left of the more popular photographer?
BBC has the same image with the right hand edge uncropped. Its surrounded by press photographers. Set up, or at least someone impressionable being egged on perhaps?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11728003
a great pay day for the photographer!
a great ‘pay day’ for the photographer
Okay, colour me cynical. But this is being portrayed as a riot by the press right? Then why are all the people in the background holding cameras? This looks more and more like a staged photo-op than anything else.
If it was a riot, where are the rioters? I can only see one. This is a set up. The composition is too good for it to be anything but staged.
Notice the wide cordon aroun the ‘protestor’, behind which are the crowds of…photographers. Sometimes it seems there’s more press than protestors at these events.
If you cross your eyes and focus the Guardian and Mail’s front pages together you get a lovely 3D view of the riots.
The Express one looks different to the others too, there’s more crowd at the bottom and the guy behind the main guy isn’t there. It might be the same as the Guardian one though, too small to tell.
Did it not happen then? Is it all a media plot to tarnish students?
It wasn’t stage the Paps are always on the front line in roits
Agent Provocateur so blatant. Now the Police will once again be able to use heavy handed tactics. This violence takes all thoughts away about the real issues. Divide and conquer same old rules. Now what would the headlines of been if that incident had not happened
We’ve got a couple of posts analysing the media coverage over at POLIS if you are interested.
http://www.charliebeckett.org/?p=3527
cheers
Charlie Beckett
POLIS, LSE
Good spot and not unusual for all the press to use exactly the same image – you can usually spot on the evening news which picture will be in all the next day’s papers.
Also, sadly, we could have predicted that the press would have told the story from a frame of young people out of control; something the largely 50+ newspaper audience should be frightened of.
A bit like rising house prices always being portrayed as a good thing!
My husband Dom took the shot that featured on many of the front pages this morning. The Guardian snap was taken by a photographer stood next to him, and you can see the back of Dom’s head in the pic on the front of the Express, so unless he has some impressive skills as a contortionist that he hasn’t told me about, then I suspect it wasn’t his either. It was still a proud day in the Lipinski household (although as he’s a staff photographer not any more financially rewarding than any other day…)
Hey Helen, what was your husbands take on the violence?
We don’t know whether the window-smasher is an anarchist or not, so please don’t call them that. Although many anarchists would probably be prepared to do something like this, so would many other people with a range of political viewpoints, or with no defined overall political viewpoint.
Anarchism is not simply the practice of smashing stuff.
Hope you don’t mind I linked your article from my blog post. This photograph is even more hilarious considering the surrounding area which had people breaking out flasks, wondering where they could get their coach from, and shuffling down the street to get a pastry before watching the speeches.
Are the student photos air-brushed “like” the ones of Carole Vorderman???