The illustrations reviewed in the earlier portion of this opinion make it clear that plaintiff used illustrations of money symbolically-to dramatize or illustrate a set of facts, an existing condition, a moral crisis, a course of conduct. “A picture,” it has been said, “is worth a thousand words.” Certainly the use by plaintiff of illustrations of money in connection with its various magazine articles gave emphasis, thrust, and even poignancy to the messages of the articles to which the illustrations pertained. A dollar bill worth seventy-three cents, with George Washington shedding a tear, constituted graphic editorial commentary on the ravages of inflation; a hoop and net stuffed to overflowing with hundred dollar bills was a powerful statement of the impact of gambling on the sport of basketball. The image of money is a powerful, expressive symbol, of significant value to members of the press, including plaintiff, in communicating information and ideas on a wide range of issues of vital public interest.
It is, to state the obvious, a particularly effective symbol for the communication of ideas about money itself. The economy, inflation, money supply, foreign trade imbalances, interest rates, and national deficit have all been part of the stuff of analytical and interpretive news reporting in recent years-reporting which has driven home to the individual citizen the impact of these matters on his or her daily life. To the extent that illustrations of money as symbols, used in connection with newspaper and magazine reporting on such matters, have explicated or made more comprehensible the very complicated concepts being treated, to that extent the public has been well served.