We the people busted the media today!

[SeanGAR]

Originally Posted by Jeff

I agree. I don't think it makes her look evil or bad. Sounds like conspiracy theory crap to me. Anyway, both the right and left slanted media perpetrate far worse distortion of the truth on us than a doctored photo.

Personally, and don't tell my wife I said this, I think the manipulated picture has more of that "shut up and take your colthes off" look than the original one.

[AAlmeter]

Originally Posted by SeanGAR

Personally, and don't tell my wife I said this, I think the manipulated picture has more of that "shut up and take your colthes off" look than the original one.

What's your take on this supposedly altered image?

http://www.shieldsnet.org/images/str...ed_kennedy.jpg

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by SeanGAR

Personally, and don't tell my wife I said this, I think the manipulated picture has more of that "shut up and take your colthes off" look than the original one.

I just heard the sound of soft leather and silver buckles jingling in the background. Somehow I think Condi would prefer it dominatrix style.

[Hammerhead]

Originally Posted by AAlmeter

What's your take on this supposedly altered image?

http://www.shieldsnet.org/images/str...ed_kennedy.jpg

The key word in your question is "supposedly".

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by AAlmeter

What's your take on this supposedly altered image?

http://www.shieldsnet.org/images/str...ed_kennedy.jpg

Isn't it obvious? Poor lighting and they took it on his bad side.
But that only explains away about 100 of those 600 pounds. hehe

[AAlmeter]

Oh yeah, and congrats on receiving the award from GrandCru. Well deserved you, you, you...uhhhhh....assclown!


[SIZE=1]Paul, we need a "pimply-faced 13 year old in the lunch room" smiley.[/SIZE]

[SeanGAR]

Originally Posted by AAlmeter

What's your take on this supposedly altered image?

http://www.shieldsnet.org/images/str...ed_kennedy.jpg

Full bottle of Jack? Ain't fuggin likely.

[AAlmeter]

Originally Posted by SeanGAR

Full bottle of Jack? Ain't fuggin likely.

There are two empties, well, you dont want to know where.

[SeanGAR]

Originally Posted by AAlmeter

There are two empties, well, you dont want to know where.

Still ... I think the biased liberal media used photoshop to refilled that bottle for Ted. You see the line just by his thumb ... its kinda fuzzy ... but shows me pretty clearly that he demolished that bottle as well, irrespective of the other 2. I would imagine the half-life of a bottle of Jack in Ted's hand would be in the order of 4.3 seconds.

[AAlmeter]

Originally Posted by SeanGAR

Still ... I think the biased liberal media used photoshop to refilled that bottle for Ted. You see the line just by his thumb ... its kinda fuzzy ... but shows me pretty clearly that he demolished that bottle as well, irrespective of the other 2. I would imagine the half-life of a bottle of Jack in Ted's hand would be in the order of 4.3 seconds.

Great catch! I'd need to clear it with Ken Starr, but I'm willing to hire you as chief photo inspector of the VRWC.

[SeanGAR]

Originally Posted by AAlmeter

Oh yeah, and congrats on receiving the award from GrandCru. Well deserved you, you, you...uhhhhh....assclown!

I was surprised and delighted at the award. I have it in my resume already.

MEMBERSHIPS AND HONORS
Junior Faculty Research Award

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CigarSnob Assclown award winner 2005.

[rumballs]

A great page with other examples!



Oprah?
Keyspan ad

can't for the life of me find the original article where I read about this one, all I can find is this:

An example of how expectations can go awry comes from Europe where Ford-Europe used a photo of employees in an ad scheduled to run in Poland. The employee picture had been taken originally to celebrate ethnic and cultural diversity. The company was "saying" to its employees and customers that it respects diversity. The photo was then manipulated to change all the black and Asian faces to white for the Polish ad, where there are few dark skinned people. Although some argued the change was a good marketing decision, the retouching alienated employees and other stakeholders who found the ad to be a negative message of exploitation and insensitivity. This mixed message situation was intensified when it became an international news story reaching many more stakeholders than just the employees involved. In this case, Ford-Europe was clearly not delivering on its diversity message and that failure was confirmed by all the press coverage.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0202/p15s02-lire.html
http://www.poynter.org/content/conte...w.asp?id=15422
http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article639.html

[rumballs]

... and of course all of this is just a step beyond setting up the scene the way you want it to appear before the pictures are taken...
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.a...7&nav=0Ra6Fp4l

[colgate]

"Demon" Condi is now a headline on Drudge. Word gets around fast on teh internets.


Drudge Report

For Jeff:


Actual unretouched photo

[par]

I don't believe for a second that this was a concorted effort by the staff or editors of a major newspaper. After the scandal with OJ's retouched photo there is no way that they'll do something that obvious on purpose.

in either case, i have to make two points:
1) Condi looks like a mean person
2) Looks shouldn't matter a bit

(and just for the record, the innocent until proven guilty defense rings hollow in the post ken starr investigative era) -A politician is never really innocent until proven guilty, they are guilty once the mud sticks...