NOM’s happy Black family

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Ampersand

Anti-gay organization NOM is eager to show off their Black supporters:

And here’s where they got them:

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10 Responses to NOM’s happy Black family

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    Robert says:
    March 27, 2013 at 11:20 am

    Unlike tight-fisted, money-grubbing pro-SSM organizations, Amp, which demand that their minions serve on demand as unpaid volunteers every time someone needs a graphic, the NOM folks are caring and compassionate and want to help families, who are still underrepresented in the stock photo image. Not only did these freelance photon-reflectors get paid for their time and trouble for the photo shoot, they probably got paid again (assuming that NOM paid Stockphoto.com and didn’t just ninja the file) in royalties.

    Why is it that you think black families should work for free so that tree-hugging white liberals can have more money to buy fancy coffees and recreational abortions, Amp? Hmm? Hmm?

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    Drashizu says:
    March 27, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    @Robert: “recreational abortions”?

    You must be kidding.

    In response to the post… Really, I don’t see why people are always so dismissive of companies and organizations using stock photos on their websites. Everybody’s doin’ it. If I were designing a website intended to attract viewers, whether to buy a product or sympathize with a cause, I would prefer to take advantage of the photogenic models, flattering lighting, and expert composition of a professional photo shoot than take my own shots of employees or volunteers. At the very least, you save money by not investing in expensive photography equipment for the 10 or 20 images you’d need scattered throughout your marketing campaign, and they’ll probably end up higher quality as well, unless you go all-out and keep your own in-house photography and photoediting department. It’s just good business sense. Which is, of course, exactly why stock photo companies flourish.

    It’s more interesting to me that the Human Rights Campaign, for instance, doesn’t appear to do it. From their website, it looks like all the photos they use were taken in the field… except for two suspiciously good-looking men on the Resources page holding a baby against a white background. But if that was taken by a photographer working for another company who supports marriage/adoption equality, I don’t hold that against them. It’s the visual effect on the page that really matters in the end.

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    Robert says:
    March 27, 2013 at 8:41 pm

    Aha, so you cop to the fancy coffees!

    Yes, as I hope was massively clear, I was kidding.

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    Jake Squid says:
    March 27, 2013 at 8:57 pm

    You can pry my recreational abortions from someone else’s cold, dead…..

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    nobody.really says:
    March 28, 2013 at 6:14 am

    @Robert: “recreational abortions”?

    You must be kidding.

    Must he?

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    Ben Lehman says:
    March 28, 2013 at 7:05 pm

    nr: man wtf did you link to?

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    Drashizu says:
    March 29, 2013 at 10:59 am

    Sorry, Robert. I think my sarcasm detector was broken when I read your post originally. Or is this an instance of the dreaded Poe’s Law striking again?

  8. 8
    Robert says:
    March 29, 2013 at 2:37 pm

    Excessive consumption of fancy coffee has been shown to correlate strongly to inability to parse sarcasm in 84% of liberal elite cohorts.

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    Robert says:
    March 29, 2013 at 2:39 pm

    Left unaddressed is the question of why Amp hates black stock photo models and wants them all to starve.

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    Jeremy Redlien says:
    April 2, 2013 at 2:27 pm

    Given all the underhanded crap NOM pulls (along with blatent lies and distortion) using a stock photo hardly seems all that noteworthy. And I’m sure pro-LGBTQ orgs are not unfamiliar with themselves with such a practice…
    -Jeremy