Asked a newspaper friend why papers publish pixellated photos in their print editions. His guilty party: sportswriters. "They're too lazy to go to the archives and look for a picture. So they download one from the Web."
Understandable. My friend's newspaper fired its library staff, the superhuman people who wrestled stacks of negatives and rolls of newsprint to the ground each day. So sportswriters can't call a librarian to dig up a photo for them.
Doesn't this open theft of pictures (low-res JPEGs are still property) raise copyright issues? "Yeah. That's kind of a hornet's nest right now."
Hire more lawyers with the fired librarians' salaries.
My friend (so called because he was nice to me before my 1999 personality upgrade) offered one more thought: Choices on things like photos are moving down from appropriate specialists, like photographers and graphic designers, to inappropriate specialists, like page designers and reporters.
Quality moves down with them.
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