Comments on: Tallahassee Democrat Crops Picture, Lands Interview with Mayor Andrew Gillum

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 06:04:41 +0000

In reply to Franklin Thompson. How do you know this

By: John Shoemaker

John Shoemaker — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 23:07:31 +0000

What stuck out to me..Soros and 250K????

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:13:35 +0000

As a former graphic journalist in both major (Orlando Sentinel) and smaller newspapers for over twenty years, I can tell you that cropping a “News Photo” (as opposed to a Features or “Fluff Story” photo) is looked down upon as unprofessional or extremely poor journalism. If it’s important news at all, the photo usually runs as it was shot, in it’s original form. Even worse, the Democrat “made a deal” with Gillum and didn’t clearly inform readers of the Gillum and advertiser pressure applied to the Democrat to crop the photo instead of publish it in original form. None of this is surprising – the Democrat long ago abandoned any pretense of being an actual journalistic publication. It’s a Shill Rag for liberals and powerful local interests, pure and simple (that’s been widely called out with many examples over a decade or more by professional journalistic publications/websites). Now, if they’d only put that “Shill Rag” disclaimer on the masthead, where it belongs.

As a side note, if I recall correctly (and I could be wrong but this is my memory of seeing it), this same photo in it’s original form included an undercover FBI agent posing as a wealthy developer standing near or next to Gillum and Corey, and it was shot on their “outing” to New York City when the “developer” paid for tickets to see the play “Hamilton” and also a Yankees game. Again, I could be wrong, but that’s my recollection. What would be great is to see the original photo published next to the cropped photo, with detailed captions identifying the people in the photo. Then readers can make their own conclusions as to why Gillum wanted the photo cropped.

By: Cranky Carl

Cranky Carl — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:54:13 +0000

Confusion exists over what was cropped. It IS relevant to understand whether the Democrat actually helped Tricky Andy or not. Please humor us and print the entire original picture, or whatever version of it you have, Steve. “Embarrassing” is not enough. Right to know what our Mayor is doing is the issue.

P.s. Thanks TR for doing all you do. Otherwise we would be asleep at the wheel as citizens just like the Tallahassee Propagandacrat.

By: Staff

Staff — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 10:29:26 +0000

In reply to Jay Smith. First, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal use unnamed sources when dealing with sensitive subjects. Second, people in Tallahassee with information about public officials are reluctant to talk due to a fear of retribution. For example, TR broke the Fernandez-Ticket scandal based on unnamed sources. Fernandez eventually resigned. You should be outraged at the Tallahassee Democrat not Tallahassee Reports.

By: Jay Smith

Jay Smith — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 04:07:01 +0000

What a bullshit article. Unnamed sources that won’t speak on the record or provide any actual evidence to support the claim that the picture was edited. How does anyone even consider this pathetic website to be anything close to real journalism?

By: Staff

Staff — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 19:26:26 +0000

In reply to Tango247. The news is that the pic was cropped after political pressure and as a condition for an interview. In the end it really does not matter what was cropped.

By: Tango247

Tango247 — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 19:05:37 +0000

In reply to Domino. That is what I am asking too. All photos are likely cropped for print space. That it was cropped is only news if we know what was cropped.

By: Concerned Citizen

Concerned Citizen — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 19:02:59 +0000

Domino, go back and look at the article run in TD showing the bottom portion of the picture blurred out. I don’t know why TD did it because our Mayor looks like an idiot either way, but the issue is a bit more than what was cropped. The issue is why was it blurred in the first place. I think the reason is because the Mayor was embarrassed by the photo and applied all kinds of pressure to TD in order to stop the story. The result was TD blurring out a portion of the photo. Again, not necessarily a big deal until you look further at why a media outlet would succumb to the pressure of it in the first place. And moreover what kind of pressure did he apply? What political entities made calls on the Mayor’s behalf–that’s the story I want to see.

By: Domino

Domino — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 16:44:21 +0000

For the love of God man, what was cropped?