Shame on USA Today:

[originalpckelly]

That's an awful picture of her, why are they showing it?

http://usatoday.com/

[sasquatch]

1. Because they're practicing Yellow Journalism at it's finest

or worst.

[Critters2]

2. What's wrong with it? nt

[Shell Beau]

4. There were many more to choose from. That is what is wrong with it.

Many more flattering ones. How would you like for a bad pic to be posted of you in your local paper the day you died? You aren't really a minister are you? Please tell me you do have some compassion because I am not feeling it.

[Critters2]

6. I just asked a simple question. Why all the emotion? nt

[Shell Beau]

7. Because I have read all of your posts on this subject.

Would you want an unflattering pic posted? Especially when there were sooooooo many to choose from.

[Critters2]

9. Maybe they were busy working on real news stories. nt

[Shell Beau]

11. Right. Answer the question.

They are busy as bees working on THIS story. As is every other news org. This is a "real" news story to them. It sells papers. Please.

and on edit, are you a minister? YOu obviously do not have to answer, but I would like to know.

[Shell Beau]

13. Why aren't you answering?

I am not impatient, but you have answered the others pretty quickly!

[sundog]

8. because you're irritating a lot of people n/t

[RFKHumphreyObama]

3. OK, granted, I'm not sure why they showed a picture of her taking off her sunglasses

But I actually think she looks quite nice in that photo

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. My guess would be

because it more accurately depicts what she actually looked like than a photo from her modeling portfolio.

[Mojambo]

10. It's not super flattering, but it's not horrible.

She looks like a normal person without hundreds of dollars of makeup on.

I'm sure People magazine will run some glamour shots.

[originalpckelly]

12. Compared to all the other photos of her, personally, I think this is just disgusting...

I would never want the front page photo of myself, were I ever in my dreams to become that famous, to look like that. She didn't seem to look like that all the time, and it just seems incredibly tacky that they would use it.

[Mojambo]

14. I don't know. I think there are far worse photos of her out there

If they really wanted to slam her they could have taken any of the footage from her tragic reality show.