“The pose that says, ‘Hey, look at me. I’m featured on the front of my local newspaper.’”
Journalist Jeremy Barr has started Local People With Their Arms Crossed, a Tumblr blog of people (often smugly) posing with their arms crossed on the front page of their hometown newspaper. Barr told Poynter, “I love simple Tumblrs, and I think local newspapers are a national treasure in more ways than people realize. I was looking through front pages with another idea in mind and noticed this pose in a few papers around the country. It’s such a silly pose, and it connotes so much. So, I thought it might be fun to see if I could compile these poses. Fortunately there’s been a steady stream of them since I started this at the beginning of the month. I thought it was funny, and I hoped people would agree.”
images via Local People With Their Arms Crossed
via Poynter., David Gallagher