in a bad (day)light

[Mark A Mandel]

Another member of a list I'm on just posted the following (regarding
Yahoo's recent covert resetting of all their list-subscriber's spam
settings to "spam me"):

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Note that the article doesn't even mention the fact that countless
users have *not* received a prior notice regarding this marketing
policy change (I'd rather call it a scam). This would put Yahoo in an
even worse daylight.

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I've never seen this variant of "in a (good/bad) light" before.

-- Mark A. Mandel