'TRIBUNE' PHOTOGRAPHER UPSET OVER ALTERATION

'National Review' Changes Jeffords Photo


(Photo District News) The latest National Review's cover features
a smiling Vermont Senator James M. Jeffords wearing a milk
moustache. The headline asks "Got integrity?," a spoof of the
"Got milk?" ads. Jeffords recently handed the Senate to the
Democrats when he switched parties.

But both the Jeffords camp and Chicago Tribune
photographer Peter Sousa are not smiling, according to a report
in The Washington Post. Sousa, who took the original
Jeffords photo sans moustache, tells the newspaper: "What
they don't have permission to do is alter and abuse one of my
journalistic photographs in this tabloid-like manner." He is even
more upset because a National Review art director told him
it was no big deal.

The conservative magazine bought the photograph from a Tribune
wire service, and editor Rich Lowry says in the report that the
parody is obvious. "We're just poking fun at [Jeffords] and
trying to make a point in the process," he said. "He's gotten so
much glowing coverage that maybe they're sensitive to anything
that's the least bit negative."

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