Once you start paying attention to this, it can no longer be unseen. If they don’t like someone, they’ll use a bad picture of them and vice versa. It’s a good tell even if the article itself seems neutral.
Once you start paying attention to this, it can no longer be unseen. If they don’t like someone, they’ll use a bad picture of them and vice versa. It’s a good tell even if the article itself seems neutral.
The reverse is true of pictures of sports folk, who are almost always pictured with their mouths open in celebration.
There used to be a saying here (UK) along the lines of “the back page of a newspaper always has a picture of a man with his mouth open” and that’s why. Sports at the back. Almost always men’s sports. Main picture was usually some leading point scorer celebrating.