Monday, August 9, 2010

Student Sues Metro over Gang Photo

It doesn't take much research to find that the free Metro paper has a questionable history when it comes to sensitivity on certain issues.  It's yet another paper I refuse to read.




BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CN) - The Metro, a free daily paper in New York City, arbitrarily used a photograph of a 10-year-old black student in a "well-regarded charter school" for a story on gang violence, the student and his parents claim in Kings County Supreme Court.  "The intentional and arbitrary use of the unrelated photograph of Jayden with an article on gang violence by Metro demonstrated Metro's reckless disregard for the truth in the service of exploiting the racial implications of the photograph in the service of profit," ...
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1 comment:

  1. Isn't there a law that prohibits the taking pictures of minors and publishing them.? I have friends that are educators and can't take pictures of there students without parental consent. What makes the Metro exempt? This alone should be able to wins this families case.

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