Posted on 06/25/2007 5:56:25 PM PDT by lowbridge
New York Times photographers, fair and balanced. How the New York Times sees the world -- and, more importantly, how the New York Times presents its view of the world to the public.
Amnesty supporters:
Amnesty opponents:
Even liberal writer Nicholas Von Hoffman noticed:
The other day The New York Times did a piece on the grass-roots opponents of the great compromise immigration bill. The accompanying photos showed a bunch of snaggletoothed retards living in trailers on the outskirts of town near the dump.
Thus the message is conveyed that if you want to identify yourself with right-thinking mainstreamers, you will be in favor of this bill. Episcopalians are, Harvard-educated reform Jews are, Roman Catholics who favor a woman’s right to choose are, so get with the respectables and let your legislator know you love this bill.
Amusingly (and ironically -- mostly), he then begins referring to immigration opponents as "snaggle people," lampooning the NYT's editorial position.
How liberal is Von Hoffman, by the way? Pretty liberal -- so liberal that Andrew Sullivan named his "Von Hoffman Award" for him, due to his prediction of a crushing Taliban victory in Afghanistan made just before they were routed.
His article is well-worth reading, though -- he's calling for an immigration pause, something that few except Nixon-goes-to-China lefties feel comfortable calling for, lest we be called "racist" by Lindsay Graham.
The NYT's brave new public editor (i.e., shill apologist) of course denies any editorial intent by illustrating opposition of to the bill as coming entirely from corncob-smokin' chicken-chokin' banjo-strokin' cousin-pokin' lynch-ropin' inbred hillbilly racist mutants:
I asked Michele McNally, the assistant managing editor in charge of photography, why her editors would choose to run a picture of a man missing a tooth when they had to know it could contribute to stereotypes about the kinds of people opposing the immigration bill. She said there had indeed been a discussion about Murphy’s appearance: how not to show his missing eye, which looked less flattering.
“I think it is discriminatory to say all toothless people who represent controversial positions shouldn’t be used,” she said. “This is a very big country that has a variety of styles and types.”
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I think all those people who have been complaining about Murphy’s photo owe him an apology. They assumed that, because he was missing a tooth, he was missing a brain. They also assumed that editors at The Times shared their prejudices and were attempting to ridicule opponents of the immigration bill.
They were wrong on both counts.
What bull$%&#. I've seen some illegal immigrants, and let me tell you, they're not all comely. Some are pretty rough-looking, as a matter of fact. And yet New York Times photographers have this knack of presenting only the most telegenic and pull-the-hearstrings illegals to illustrate its pieces.
I suppose the NYT's public editor will rebut that that little guy doesn't have all of his teeth, either.
Its a SciFi movie but I don’t think that is it. I was thinking of the asteroid movie with Bruce Willis.
Like the Congressional traitors, they’re toast and too stupid to realize it yet.
They left out the halos when they photoshopped that amnesty supporter pic.
Probably watching happily as an illegal alien gets released after his 5th DUI.
Ironically, that kid in Deliverance didn’t know how to play the banjo. They had a stunt arm up his sleeve to do the pickin’.
You decide.
Not P C ...................
I’ve decided, Not a photoshop.
Did the White House supply these photos?
That looks like a nice, big, black box made by Photoshop’s paint tool. Those vertical lines are too straight (i.e., perfect), and the black is very, very dark-—note the “lighter” shades of black in the rest of his mouth that look more natural.
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Sour cream, salsa, chili
Our Lady Of The Snack!
LOL!
Lol, Sour cream, salsa, and chili would ruin the apparition on the tortilla! You have probably ruined a few...!!
They travel for miles to see a supposed apparition on anything.
You know damn well that this coward would NEVER portray a minority group like that but he can get away with this because it is perceived as mainly whites that are against illegal immigration when in fact it’s a whole cross section of America. It’s guilty white liberals like this that I’d like to meet one on one in the middle of the street.
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I could handle one of your tortilla spechuls right now!
Lol, haven’t heard you mention tortillas in awhile.
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