Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Eating Your Own Young, Part II
Well, this is a fine congrats!
Doesn't Reese Witherspoon look a bit like a shrieking monkey on Tuesday's cover? This is a problem I see with a lot of Red's celeb cover stories--ugly, boring (or in this case, hideous) photos of the subject. If you must run vapid celeb stories, at least make them look hot. From a distance, one might think the cover story is about, say, what a bitch that Reese Witherspoon is, particularly because that shrill display text punches you in the nose the same way every day, no matter what the actual tone or angle of the corresponding story.
Most agree that Reese is attractive, and she's celebrating her Golden Globe win, and of course Red is celebrating "All the fashion, glitz and glam inside the Golden Globes." So how about checking the wires again for a pretty picture?
Doesn't Reese Witherspoon look a bit like a shrieking monkey on Tuesday's cover? This is a problem I see with a lot of Red's celeb cover stories--ugly, boring (or in this case, hideous) photos of the subject. If you must run vapid celeb stories, at least make them look hot. From a distance, one might think the cover story is about, say, what a bitch that Reese Witherspoon is, particularly because that shrill display text punches you in the nose the same way every day, no matter what the actual tone or angle of the corresponding story.
Most agree that Reese is attractive, and she's celebrating her Golden Globe win, and of course Red is celebrating "All the fashion, glitz and glam inside the Golden Globes." So how about checking the wires again for a pretty picture?
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To reprise our discussion earlier, for everyone else's benefit, I think the key here isn't how it makes her look -- I don't see the ape bit at all -- but the fact that it's a hideous and terrifying photo. Do you mean to tell me there was not a single close-up of her available anywhere that wouldn't terrify small children? She's got a very pretty face, normally.
Who in the world thought this would move papers? I mean, RedEye is a tab, and the whole point of a full-page tab cover is to catch your eye on the newsstand and in the vendor box.
I wouldn't buy a newspaper with this terrifying face on it if you paid me to.
Sure, RedEye is a free tab, but still! I mean, you don't go out of your way to not move papers just because you're free.
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Who in the world thought this would move papers? I mean, RedEye is a tab, and the whole point of a full-page tab cover is to catch your eye on the newsstand and in the vendor box.
I wouldn't buy a newspaper with this terrifying face on it if you paid me to.
Sure, RedEye is a free tab, but still! I mean, you don't go out of your way to not move papers just because you're free.
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