Leftycartoons. Moogaloop.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) Life, liberty and the pursuit of sanity. Ombudsman Blog - Readers react to photo of two men kissing. By Andy Alexander Powerful photographs can have lasting impact, and a Post photo of two men kissing is an image that many readers can neither forget nor accept. The photo, which ran on the newspaper's front page and online last week, captured Jeremy Ames and Taka Ariga kissing outside D.C. Superior Court on the day that the District began accepting license applications for same-sex marriages. Almost immediately, I began hearing from upset readers. That’s normal when controversial photos appear in The Post. A few of the readers have engaged in rants, often with anti-gay slurs. But most simply said The Post had offended their sensibilities by publishing the photo, especially on the front page.
Ann Witty of Woodbridge wrote to say she had canceled the Post subscription she has held since the 1960s. “I am 65 years old and I realize that the world is changing rapidly – much more rapidly than I would like it to,” she e-mailed. Did the Post go too far? News photos capture reality. C_08272006_520.gif (GIF Image, 520x445 pixels) 88-jm021709_COLOR_Obama_GOP_Economy.standalone.prod_affiliate.56.jpg (JPEG Image, 660x428 pixels)