Posted on 09/27/2005 4:05:54 PM PDT by Brian Mosely
Now, let's take a closer look at this image.
By chance, I took a photo of the same girl just a few moments later. Looks practically identical, doesn't it?
But you might notice that my picture is lower resolution. That's because it's a zoomed-in portion of a much larger photograph. I cropped off the other parts of the picture to get a close-up of the girl.
But what would happen if I hadn't cropped off so much? Let's take a step backward and reveal what the San Francisco Chronicle didn't want you to see.
Here's the same photo without as much cropping, revealing more of the context. You can see that the girl's protest contingent also sported Palestinian flags and obscene placards.
Now let's take another step back.
Here's my full original photo, uncropped. Now we can see that the girl is just one of several teenagers, all wearing terrorist-style bandannas covering their faces.
But, as you'll notice, the bandannas are all printed with the same design. Was this a grassroots protest statement the teenagers had come up with all by themselves?
To find out, let's take a look at another photo in the series, taken at the same time:
Oops -- it looks like they're actually being stage-managed by an adult, who is giving them directions and guiding them toward the front of the march. But who is she?
The last picture in the series reveals all.
It turns out that the woman giving directions belongs to one of the Communist groups organizing the rally -- if her t-shirt is to be believed, since it depicts
the flag of Communist Vietnam, which has been frequently displayed by such groups at protest rallies in the U.S. for decades.
The San Francisco Chronicle featured the original photograph on its front page in order to convey a positive message about the rally -- perhaps that even politically aware teenagers were inspired to show up and rally for peace, sporting the message, "People of Color say 'No to War!'" And that served the Chronicle's agenda.
But this simple analysis reveals the very subtle but insidious type of bias that occurs in the media all the time. The Chronicle did not print an inaccuracy, nor did it doctor a photograph to misrepresent the facts. Instead, the Chronicle committed the sin of omission: it told you the truth, but it didn't tell you the whole truth.
Because the whole truth -- that the girl was part of a group of naive teenagers recruited by Communist activists to wear terrorist-style bandannas and carry Palestinian flags and obscene placards -- is disturbing, and doesn't conform to the narrative that the Chronicle is trying to promote. By presenting the photo out of context, and only showing the one image that suits its purpose, the Chronicle is intentionally manipulating the reader's impression of the rally, and the rally's intent.
Such tactics -- in the no-man's-land between ethical and unethical -- are commonplace in the media, and have been for decades. It is only now, with the advent of citizen journalism, that we can at last begin to see the whole story and realize that the public has been manipulated like this all along.
Peeling back the layers of the stinking onion to reveal the truth.
Good work.
Great job Brian, I hope your photos make it around the internet!!!
Thanks for posting.
The MSM - All bias, all the time.
Outstanding example of new media trumping the old!
Photo approved by the Komodo-dragon-menu-item editor.
You guys, FR needs to start its own news channel and its own paper. There are so many talented, smart Freepers who are out there where the news is being made. Oh yeah, great reporting.
Nice work.
Pretty good...
PING
Bumpitttt.
I submit it's not taken at the same time at least. Notice the prominant knot in the first photo. The knot is directly centered over the white stripe. In subsequent photos the knot is changed and drawn over the the left side of (subjects left side). Who knows when these cropped photos were taken, before, during or after the event? No way to tell.
Besides, nowdays with photoshop nothing is believeable in a photo. Remember, we've all seen Tom Hanks receive a medal from President Lyndon Johnson in the movie Forest Gump.
So, what are we trying to do here? Tell everyone The story may be false, but the context is true? Sound familiar?
Thanks for uncovering the real story. That professional commie chick sure knows how to stage a photo-op. Wonder how much she paid those kids to be photographed in all that garb? She should be charged with child abuse.
AS i said, I can't claim credit for this. The Little Green Footballs operative "Zombie" did the work
From the same site, this one is so hilarious! I know the Democrats don't have a strategy other than "blame Bush" and are incapable of thinking about the future, but I had no idea they were this badly crippled when it comes to thinking ahead, even a few seconds ahead!
A Big Old Communist Bump . . . .
bttt
The intent was to mislead and the effect was to mislead.
The media will say they have journalistic license.
I say they are drunk with power and long ago abandoned any pretense of journalism.
Did you contact the Media research center (Brent Bozell, www.mrc.org about your photo's?
Send this to WorldNetDaily.com - they may run it as a story.
Also newsmax.com, and boortz.com
Don't be shy: Let the internet know!
Great work Zombie, and thanks to you Brian, for sharing it with us.
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