While this isn’t exactly timely, I would like to direct your attention to an article in March 6’s Register-Guard. The article discusses, in the most unbiased way possible, the school board’s resistance to the proposal of naming a new elementary school after Cesar Chavez. While a number of aspects of this article deserve notice (its leaving resistance to naming the school after Chavez wholly unexplained; its use of quotes like “don’t be mean” from a fifth-grade girl), one part really seemed to stand out.

Maybe I just like to look at pictures rather than read an entire news story, but the photo that accompanied this article made very, very little sense to me. The second paragraph reads: “Wearing bright red arm bands and red bandanas, the many Latino youths there were the focal point of the midafternoon rally, which drew close to 150 people of all ages and colors.” But did they get a picture of these youths? Heck no.

What they got appears to be two middle-aged white women. The only person in the picture wearing a red bandana who could fit into the “youth” category sure looks blonde from this angle. And the rest of the crowd just sort of looks bored. (Granted, in the on-line version of the article, there is a picture of several bandana-clad youths. However, when I read the article in print on Saturday, that picture was not included — notice the lack of a caption.)

Score one for the R-G photo department!

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