The Big Picture-Boston.com

Boston.com's "The Big Picture is a section of their website that tells stories through pictures. One story was about the proposition of legalizing marijuana in the U.S. It started with a paragraph and was followed by thirty-two pictures. This is the paragraph:

With marijuana on the ballot in four U.S. states this November, most prominently California's Proposition 19, which would fully legalize the substance, the legalization of marijuana has become a hot topic of discussion in North America. If pot were to become legal in California, it is unclear how that would affect the ongoing drug wars in neighboring Mexico - whether it would increase, decrease, or have little effect on the widespread violence. What is clear is that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has declared that the federal Justice Department will continue to prosecute those who use or distribute recreational marijuana, regardless of any change to state law. Collected here are photos from the past year of marijuana in the news, for both medicinal and recreational purposes, and some of the legal entanglements involved.

The pictures showed every angle of the issue. The positives of marijuana in happiness and peace; the negatives in death and tragedy in Mexico. They show the struggle between the people who want it legalized, and the people trying to stop that from happening by arresting people and burning tons (literally) of marijuana.

The interesting part of this type of story telling is that the pictures aren't just telling a single story. They let the reader examine the photographs, and then put together a story in their heads. This is an extremely objective type of journalism because the photographs aren't opinionated, they are just photos depicting true events. Photographs don't lie, especially high quality ones like these.