SOMETIMES newspaper people and photographers forget that they should be doing journalistic reporting instead of acts of clairvoyance.

This thought came to mind when a few days after the 2016 local and national elections, a leading national newspaper’s online edition came out with a worm’s-eye photo of a candidate for Philippine president, decked with a floral garland, gesticulating to an unseen audience against a backdrop of blue skies and cirrus clouds.

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