Let the Marketing Begin

In an early effort to cash in on the South Asia disaster, the Discovery Channel ran this double page spread in Sunday’s LATimes.  The network is offering a program called The Next Wave: Science of Tsunamis, which will be shown five times between January 5th and 9th. Discovery Communications,...

Rack To Riches

The Benetton Problem (Among Others)

These are the lead images that ran in the LATimes and NYTimes last Tuesday (the second day of the Asian disaster).  I’ve been thinking about them all week.  In my last “tsunami post,” I focused on why news photos generally don’t elicit emotional reactions.  However, I think there are...