<p><pre><code> Users want to see the people in the stories, not the people writing them.
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Truthfully I hope this is a case where media people aren't giving enough credit to their audience (as opposed to a case where I'm just a minority - though I suspect this is more the case).<p>I mean, in a story, sure, pictures can be great. But when deciding which story to read, e.g. when reading a list of headlines, I surely can't be the only one with a long enough attention span to actually read the headlines and decide based on what the story is, without needing a small picture to draw me in?