One Inventive Way To Get Around A Photo Ban: Send A Cartoonist



It's hard not to smile at the Plymouth Herald's solution to a photo ban made by the Southampton Football Club in an attempt to get news organizations to buy team-sponsored pool photo: editor Bill Martin sent local historian and cartoonist Chris Robinson instead. I think the results work, although admittedly I'm a comics nut. I can understand why you'd run them with a long explanation as to the issues involved.

I surmise from writing a couple of obituaries the last few years that English newspapers used to employ artists in this fashion on a semi-regular basis, particular at the lower levels, although in those cases it was always portrayed as another way a paper could get coverage out of the popular local club -- like you would run the results the day after the game and then the day after that you'd get the cartoonist's take on the game. As anyone who's lived in, say, Chicago, where similar non-comics tricks are used to get seven-days-a-week coverage on the bears, it's easy to see how this could work. Come to think of it, I would have loved a full-page of a cartoonist on the Bears every week; I would have bought the Tribune or the Sun-Times based on that. Although, again: comics nut. Still, it would be pretty cool.
 
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