Great minds, etc.

J Kaufman · **Posted:** Sat Feb 09, 2013 2:07 pm

Poynter reports that The Times, the Washington and New York Posts and the Wall Street Journal, at least, ran a Page One snow shot from Reuters in Boston, there being no snow and no photographers anywhere else in America at the time. The Boston Globe went for the usual dumb real-estate shot. The Herald, not to be out-dumbed, used an image that doubtless was entirely unposed. Yeah, right.

J Kaufman · **Posted:** Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:45 am

Update: No photo is complete without the "how I got the picture" sidebar. Going out in the snow and the cold helps. Bonus: The wince-inducing s/he, still not quite awful enough to surrender English to the epicene pronoun.

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“You have to be situationally aware” to find the story in the storm, Snyder said. “What’s fun about it? What’s a bummer about it? At the start, the wind was ferocious and it wasn’t that cold yet, so the stuff falling was sharp and hurt” like needles. His photo conveyed that feeling to readers of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Post, The Washington Post and other local papers that featured it on their front pages.

Snyder doesn’t know whether the pedestrian was a man or a woman. “When you’re bundled up in the cold like that it’s kind of hard to tell,” and he didn’t have a chance to talk with the person, or get a name as s/he rushed by.

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