Heh.
Posted on 09/15/2008 5:53:27 PM PDT by Libloather
Atlantic photographer and her 'McCain Derangement Syndrome'
Rick Moran
September 15, 2008
This is an incredible story that pulls back the curtain on the media in a way that has never been done before.
Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic Monthly wrote a very unflattering portrait of John McCain for the publication. To take the picture of McCain for the piece, the Atlantic hired Jill Greenberg, a free lance photographer.
The controversy arose when Greenberg informed her blog readers that she actually tried to take pictures of McCain in the most unflattering light possible. The New York Post has the story:
"Greenberg also crowed that she had tricked McCain into standing over a strobe light placed on the floor - turning the septuagenarian's face into a horror show of shadows.
Asking McCain to 'please come over here' for a final shot, Greenberg pretended to be using a standard modeling light.
The resulting photos depict McCain as devilish, with bulging brows and washed-out skin.
'He had no idea he was being lit from below," Greenberg said, adding that none of his entourage picked up on the light switch either. 'I guess they're not very sophisticated,' she said.
The Atlantic opted not to use the distorted McCain shot on its cover, selecting instead a more straightforward portrait. 'We stand by the picture we are running on our cover," said Atlantic editor James Bennet. 'We feel it's a respectful portrait. We hope we'll be judged by that picture.'
But Bennet was appalled by Greenberg saying she tried to portray McCain in an unflattering way.
'We feel totally blind-sided,' he said. 'Her behavior is outrageous. Incredibly unprofessional.'
Greenberg posted the outtakes on her blog as a "political statement" - including one where she gave McCain shark's teeth and had him licking blood soaked lips.
In the insular world of New York journalism, Greenberg's doings would not be considered that extraordinary - if she had simply kept her mouth shut and not bragged about how she fooled both McCain and the magazine. We've seen this kind of thing before with the picture of Ann Coulter on the front of Time Magazine that appeared to show her through a fish eye lens that elongated her legs and face. Time denied any shenanigans at the time but it was clear that they were trying to put Ms. Coulter in the worst light possible.
Now we have Greenberg and her little political drama. This will not harm her career in the slightest and I predict she will always have plenty of work from Magazines looking to do hit pieces on conservatives and Republicans.
“Not professional” in the MSM is getting caught showing your personal political bias and how you apply it to your reporting.
“Professional” in the MSM is never publically admiting to your personal political bias and pretending your reporting isn’t either. Professional = maintaining the illusion.
Fair's fair
Aka Ivy League Journalism schools.
They were saying on Hannity and Colmes tonight that this is not evidence of media bias becuase Greenberg was a rogue photographer. It does not seem to matter to them that the Atlantic published one of her photos instead of ordering a reshoot, or that Greenberg’s heinous shots merely buttressed an unflattering article. Not evidence of bias? What poppycock!
Heh.
guilty!
This is one of the dangers when one uses Photoshop to create trouble. Shameful.
Jill Greenberg (pimp for Atlantic Monthly and Atlantic editor James Bennet):
"Atlantic Monthly and I tricked tricked McCain into standing over a strobe light
'I guess they're not very sophisticated."
GUILTY!!!
Heck, GUILTIER THAN SIN!!!
Next case, bailiff!
Jill Greenberg is a notorious child abuser. I kid you not. This monster belongs in jail. Just look at what she does to children!
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/pictures/0,,1830504,00.html
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What’s the big deal? Sounds like Greenberg’s photos only reinforced the Goldberg article. It was ok for him to write an ‘unflattering’ story but not ok for her to publish unflattering photos? I think these mags should be consistent. Show who they really are.
What it means is that some on the left will use this software program in question to try to make Sen.McCain or Gov. Palin look really bad. It is used to either restore of manipulate pictures.
A correction, while drinking my first cup of coffee in the morning, instead of “of” it should in the previous posting be “or”.
The cover picture is not much better than the strobe-lit picture. The editor should be fired for hiring this harpy, and then docked his last paycheck for approving the cover pic. I saw him on Fox, expressing his shock over Greenberg’s actions, but he had to know her agenda. One look at that cover picture, with the greasy looking skin and the weird lighting, is all you need to know her agenda. The McCain people may be “unsophisticated”, i.e., unschooled in the various vicious dirty tricks of amoral leftists, but there’s a whole world wide web full of experts who can see through such antics.
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