Catherine Thorbecke writes about Pinterest and The Knot are no longer promoting the plantation weddings after the disrespectful nature of the weddings to their attention. The information was brought to their attention by Color of Change. Jade Magnus Ogunnaike, interim senior campaign director at Color of Change, explained how the promotion of planation weddings often glosses over reality. The marketing often describes the plantations as historical sites. Pinterest plans on denying ads from plantation sites, as well as changing search autocomplete and recommendations. The Knot is working to update its guidelines to prohibit the romanization of slavery history. Ogunnaike says the end goal is to keep the advertising from using history as a selling point if they are going to deny the involvement with slavery.
I feel like the story could have been split up better. All of the pictures are located at the front end of the story and the end is just left with links as text. It would have been an easier way to keep attention throughout. The article is paced strangely. The title talks about the stand Pinterest and The Knot are taking but doesn’t get into it till several paragraphs in. There is more about Color of Change before which makes me think that should be in the title. However, when Thorbecke did get to how Pinterest and The Knot are acting, it was super interesting. It would have been more engaging if that was earlier in the story. Ending the story with Ogunnaike was another weird move that put more focus on Color of Change and not the companies in the title.
You are a critical reader, Calissa. Do this with everything you read, and every image you see.
I hope you had a positive semester.