Funny things happen in the mountains, which is one perk to working at a mountain town newspaper. Our assistant online editor used to work at The Vail Daily, and as he was searching the blogoverse this morning (I hate the word "blogosphere"), he checked in at his old news paper and found a story and photography of some poor skier who'd fallen off the chairlift and was dangling, naked from the waist down, from the chair. Rescuers got to him pretty quickly, but not before another skier snapped some digital photos.
The Vail Daily decided to run the photos, which made Vail Resort pretty angry. The link below is a response from the paper's editor on why they decided to run the photo. What would you do? I'm curious to hear from SAF and students alike. ...I asked around our office, and most of us feel choosing to run it in the paper was in poor taste. Online? Sure. At least there you can warn people that they're about to see some bare, hairy buttocks.
(warning: in addition to insightful commentary, link contains an image of said buttocks)
http://www.porterstahoe.com/2009/01/only-at-vail-chairlift-fail.asp
~Shannon Davis, Backpacker Magazine
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