<story><title>Telephoto fear: how lenses affect views of crowds</title><url>https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210126/p2a/00m/0op/009000c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phreeza</author><text>On the contrary, I explicitly remember this effect making the rounds in many outlets in April:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nyheder.tv2.dk&amp;#x2F;samfund&amp;#x2F;2020-04-26-hvor-taet-er-folk-paa-hinanden-disse-billeder-er-taget-samtidig-men-viser-to&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nyheder.tv2.dk&amp;#x2F;samfund&amp;#x2F;2020-04-26-hvor-taet-er-folk-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>reedf1</author><text>As an amateur photographer the reporting at the beginning of the pandemic was journalistic poison. Anyone even vaguely interested in photography knows about lens compression. There wasn&amp;#x27;t a single photo of a beach or a high-street I could find that wasn&amp;#x27;t intentionally composed to compress the crowds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noneeeed</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure this was contrary to what the parent comment says. Back in April the newspapers and other media were regularly using photographs that made crowds and beaches look much more densly packed than they were.&lt;p&gt;This was being pointed out by articles like the one you linked to, but that doesn&amp;#x27;t negate original offense. Far fewer people were reading articles like this than were seing toxic scare-mongering photos on the front pages of major national newspapers.</text></comment>
<story><title>Telephoto fear: how lenses affect views of crowds</title><url>https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210126/p2a/00m/0op/009000c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phreeza</author><text>On the contrary, I explicitly remember this effect making the rounds in many outlets in April:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nyheder.tv2.dk&amp;#x2F;samfund&amp;#x2F;2020-04-26-hvor-taet-er-folk-paa-hinanden-disse-billeder-er-taget-samtidig-men-viser-to&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nyheder.tv2.dk&amp;#x2F;samfund&amp;#x2F;2020-04-26-hvor-taet-er-folk-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>reedf1</author><text>As an amateur photographer the reporting at the beginning of the pandemic was journalistic poison. Anyone even vaguely interested in photography knows about lens compression. There wasn&amp;#x27;t a single photo of a beach or a high-street I could find that wasn&amp;#x27;t intentionally composed to compress the crowds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thinkingemote</author><text>It depends where you are I imagine. Some countries have cultures where any attempts to lessen the messaging in coronavirus news is on par with being morally wrong (or even dangerous). Other cultures are more critical or resistant. HN has a very diverse mix of users from a range of places.</text></comment>