Consternation at the Guardian, where the latest in a series of culture wars to hit the newsroom is photographers being misnamed. An email sent from on high to the newsroom has requested that “we stop referring to photographers as ‘snappers’”.
It continues: “I’m sure it’s nobody’s intention but it is demeaning and demoralising for the photography team. If you can kindly help me to spread the word.”
Rats in a Sack is old enough to remember when photographers were
routinely referred to as “monkeys” by their notepad-toting colleagues – the cruel suggestion being that simians could be trained to do their job – so at least there’s been progress of a sort.
