Requesting Pic Showing NewsMedia Distortion

October 8, 2005

[texianyankee]

About a month or so ago, I noticed on Free Republic, a series of pictures posted showing the way the MSM distorts reality.

In this situation, I believe it was during the Sheehan story in Crawford where she or some compadre of hers, was kneeling down near one of the white crosses. The way the MSM portrayed the pic, you woulda thought there was a massive crowd around her - but other pics that showed the actual crowd revealed that it was all photographers, media hounds, etc.

Can someone give me the site or share those two contrasting photos for me?

I got a point to make with some whacko liberal college student who has his head in the clouds.

Thanks!

[Doogle]

..do a keyword search under Sheehan

[texianyankee]

You know, I shoulda thought of that already. Thanks. I guess my age is catching up with me.

[WVNan]

I know which thread it's on, but there are about 4,000 replies on it, so it will take awhile to find it. I don't have time to look right now, but I'm sure someone will find it shortly.

[cripplecreek]

Do you remember the photo of the guy dressed like an Abu Graib prisoner with the white house in the background? then the other photo taken at the same time from the back showing about two dozen photographers gathered around for the photo shoot.

[martin_fierro]

In this situation, I believe it was during the Sheehan story in Crawford where she or some compadre of hers

It was Fat Al Sharpton.

[texianyankee]

Yeah, that's one of the problems I just noticed - way too many threads.
I do know it was posted around the time when we had the massive rally in support of Dubya. That would be around Labor Day.

[texianyankee]

Thanks Martin! That is a great one. That was the one I saw - only without the caption.

[Doogle]

..there's so many MSM photo opts it's hard to keep up with...the poster should not have a hard time finding loads of examples. There are plenty.


Doogle

[texianyankee]

That would be another pic that I could use - I seem to recall seeing that one, too.

[texianyankee]

I recall seeing a photo that the MSM posted showing just Sheehan kneeling down.

Is that one available, too? It would be nice to contrast the two.

[Spunky]

The worst distoration was at the beginning of the Iraq war. A reporter took a picture of a Marine holding a gun and yelling at people to get down because there was fear of a bomb going off. The reporter changed the picture to make it look like the Marine was pointing the gun at a man holding his son and running, in order to make it look like he was going to shoot them.

If anyone knows where to find that picture please help out.

[martin_fierro]

Hey, you're welcome.

If there's any other dated, pointless, obvious vanity research you'd like me to do for you, please ... contact tijeras_slim.

[clifcrds]

I don't have them on my laptop but when I get home I will send the links to this one + a couple of other "edited" photos from the anti war rally in September that clearly is representative of the main stream media "editing" "staged" photos to misrepresent what was actually happening when the photos were taken. It is just mind boggling what the liberal loving MSM gets away with when it comes to passing on their preconceived opinions and perceptions to an incredulous American public.

[texianyankee]

you bet!

[Sisku Hanne]

There is also a great series of pics on one of the protest threads showing a "lone" young black teen wearing a scarf on her head..then it zooms out and you see her group, then it zooms out more and you see the "handler" who is orchestrating their group...

found it... Anatomy of a photograph

[atomic conspiracy]

Here they are:

Let's A/B the media (staged photo busted at D.C. protest)

How Phony can they get? (media busted at Crawford)

The original source for these was Little Green Footballs, which has a wealth of material on media bias. Just search "media are the enemy" or "media bias" with "entries only" checked on the advanced search page.

[cripplecreek]

[texianyankee]

LOL! Actually, that link you posted to the "anatomy of a photograph," is what triggered my discussion with this college student who participates in anti-Bush rallies.

Thanks.