Just noticed today, this NOS design upgrade both at the website and in the iOS app. Images now have a caption visible – at first glance – right in the post, showing whether the image is news or an archive image for illustration. The caption here (dutch) reads “Bags with food aid from UNRWA in Gaza (archive) You now no longer need to click and ‘open’ images to get to the included caption with the info whether an image is a news photo or an archive illustration.
NOS News • today, 10:09 French police shot dead man who wanted to set fire to Rouen synagogue…
The visible caption on this photo here is ‘ANP’, the in Holland well known almost 100 year old press agency (similar to eg Reuters) distributing news to other professional media like newspapers and our national tv broadcaster .
Annoying … (knowing) you now need to check every news item image (photo/still) of the Dutch national news broadcaster NOS to find out whether that image really is a news photo or actually fake … just an illustration from some archive.
You need to click this image in the post to be able to read the small print additional caption, this is just an archive image (dutch: archiefbeeld) … no news.
I appreciate the excellent NOS public national news broadcaster in the Netherlands. And, using archive footage may help storytelling in documentary work. However, here, watching the NOS site on an iPad or desktop PC, it’s obvious the design of the site creates a problem , since posting a news item requires using at least one image. With no news photo available , the best alternative here appears to be using text for the featured image.
Else, best, show the notice ‘Archive image’ clearly visible at first glance in the post’s image… (?)
Citation info : NOS News Photo | @1MEMO 20240517
Update
Update 20240517 – 1546 CET minor text changes
Update 20240517 – 2224 CET : Noticed that (i) NOS site post has been updated last at 16:18 CET ; and image has been replaced with actual news image (caption : Police investigations at the Rouen synagogue | dutch : Politie doet onderzoek bij de synagoge in Rouen )
Searching for paper earlier this month (for use as video backgrounds) in my library I came across this special booklet on The Mysterious Kazerne Dossin transit camp published by author Jos Hakker within days of the liberation in Belgium – date of epilogue 7 Sep 1944, Liège (Belgium). Printed by Excelsior in Antwerp, published by ‘Ontwikkeling’ in Antwerp.
The paper background I used in ‘Ellipsis … | 20240206’ was created from a page in ‘Le Rire’ by Henri Bergson – Librairie Félix Alcan , 38eme ed. (Paris ), 1932.
① memo 20180504 ~ Free Press ~ Commemoration of the war victims who lost their lives for a free press and freedom of speech at the monument by sculptor Rooijackers at the facade of the international press centre Nieuwspoort (English: news gate) today , May 4th, the dutch day of Remembrance of the World War II victims , The Hague , Holland
① memo 20180131 ~ Photo Press Ski Jumping ~ Ski Jumping’s 58th International Jack Wolfskin Four-Hills-Tournament Training/Qualification 2 January 2010 at Berg Isel in Innsbruck , Austria
