Thursday, April 6, 2017

Symbolic Gesture? The Bureau of Land Management changes the image it projects

The US Bureau of Land Management swapped out the header photo of its website in a telling way, many critics fear. The previous image was a picture of two young boys looking out over a wilderness scene wearing backpacks.

The new image is of a coal seam.

You can read the story and see the actual images from the NPR story here.

Links for more information:
Original story from NPR: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/06/522924256/blm-replaces-mountain-landscape-photo-with-coal-seam-on-homepage

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