Last but not least: How did the Tagi get this picture?
Last Friday’s front page of the *Tages-Anzeiger*: a large photo featuring two people with bizarre smiles. One can only assume that the photographer caught them at a particularly inopportune moment. Who did this to them? And how on earth did they end up on the front page?
The title reveals that it is the new EU President Herman Van Rompuy and the newly elected Foreign Minister Catherine Ashton. Keystone is cited as the source of the picture. Is this possibly the only photo taken of Van Rompuy and Ashton during the elections in Belgium? Brief research by Werbewoche shows that there would have been alternatives - not necessarily outstanding ones, but better ones. How about this one, for example:
This photo would definitely have given a different impression:
What was going on at the Tagi? Was the photo chosen after a fun-filled company party? Or were they going for the shock effect? It doesn't help: close your eyes and go on.
(Image source: Keystone)
