Call Me Ed

A magazine editor was fired the other day because he choose to put a controversial image on the cover. You can read the entire story here.

After some brief research, the cover shot appears to be just a royalty-free stock image.

Sometimes I forget how powerful images can be. A single image can stir just about every human emotion. This was a fairly generic stock image which has surely been purchased and even published a number of times. But in this context, it had the power to anger a lot of people and eventually cost the editor his job.