A disrespectful crop?
Does this photograph look disrespectful to you? Some readers of the Atlanta-Journal Constitution thought it was. Looking for a different take on the usual photo of the Veterans Day parade in downtown Atlanta, photographer Elissa Eubanks cropped the photo as she shot to focus on just the salute given by Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, the parade's grand marshal. (That's "marshal" with one "l" for those of you who remember the usage test!)

Some readers, however, thought the crop was disrespectful. In a column about the photo, A-JC public editor Angela Tuck quoted one reader as writing "Showing only his THREE STARS, and the tips of his fingers ... is a far cry from showing the real leader of the brave young men and women who are serving ... in harm's way." But Bert Roughton, the newspaper's managing editor for print, who selected the photo, said he thought the image provided a fresh take on an annual event. "Every media cover these events and present basically the same images all the time," he was quoted by Tuck as saying. "The challenge for us every day is to somehow distinguish our printed newspaper from Web sites, TV news, other newspapers and even collective memories. At times we present a different take on a familiar theme just to get readers to take a second look."

What do you think?