Artist renditions of news events have been published in newspapers for a very long time. I know this has been happening in Japan since the 1800's. I suspect this has been happening in the Anericas since the 1700's. What's new here? Is it the risk of photorealistic fabrications?
Obviously enriching reportage with graphics/animations is a good thing.
It's this specific sort that I dislike; badly researched and, essentially, fiction made for mass consumption (and feed our voyeuristic needs :)).
Don't get me wrong; if they did the proper research into all of those things and showed a realistic interpretation (the sinking boat, for me, was the closest to this) then good, that's enriching.
Probably the majority of the renditions in the Old Japanese papers were voyeuristic. It sells papers. Too bad supporting democracy throughh an informed public isn't as directly connected with profit.
