Posted on 07/05/2010 4:19:51 AM PDT by blam
BUSTED: The Economist Photoshops Obama To Make Him Look More Depressed And Alone
Henry Blodget
Jul. 5, 2010, 7:03 AM
It's just not quite the same for a president to be glancing down at the water while chatting with others on the beach as it is for the president to be solemn and depressed and alone while contemplating oil-soaked sand.
But the Economist didn't have a picture of the latter. So they made one:
Et tu, Economist?
Image: New York Times
The fraud was discovered by Jeremy Peters of the New York Times
And don't miss the 10 biggest Photoshop frauds of all time
[snip]
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
There was some deception involved, not just changing the aesthetics of the photo. In the real photo he was tilting his head down to better hear the shorter woman. The magazine cover gives the impression he is alone and sadly gazing at the water while deep in thought. That is a pretty dramatic emotional shift.
“Actually, I have it on good authority the New York Times photoshopped those other people IN.”
Thanks! I had a good laugh.
The list, ping?
Would you have been as tolerant if this was McCain (if he had won)...or if this was Bush looking over Katrina?
Let's not be hypocrites.
Related ...
Reuters caught cropping incriminating flotilla photos
http://wizbangblog.com/content/2010/06/07/reuters-caught-cropping-incriminating-flotilla-photos.php
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2010/06/reuters-brings-fauxtography-to-gaza.html
“You may remember during the second Lebanese war Reuters was caught making news pictures look worse than they were with a little touch of Photo Shop.”
I remember when I had satellite, I used to surf around and sometimes watch news stations play their little games. One time, a feed was a replay of Clinton talking about, “heheh” trying to rein in his baser instincts or something like that. Again and again, they replayed that snippet, each time washing out the damnable laugh more and more. It was creepy as sin.
ROFL! Good one!
Obama: “We Will Not Rest ...” [golf club in hand]
Obama Plays Eighth Round of Golf Since Oil Spill—Media Fails to Report
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/pings
May 26, 2010 ... (Fox News) - President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he “will not rest” until the oil leaking from a ruptured oil well in the Gulf of [snip]
Obama: ‘Will Not Rest’ Until Oil Spill is Stopped [”Just words.”]
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpps/news/obama-will-not-rest-until-oil-spill-is-stopped-dpgonc-20100526-fc_7757796
The Economy Too ...
“Addressing reporters after a White House Cabinet meeting, President Obama says, ‘I will not rest until business are
investing again, and businesses are hiring again.’”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/11/23/obama_i_will_not_rest_until_businesses_are_hiring.html
I think 4buttons decoded this one quite nicely [Post 14]
Er ... post 15. [I believe codes can be unbreakable, especially when I’m the one trying to decode them.]
It wasn’t cropped. Look at it again. The woman is photoshopped out completely.
Anything is an improvement over the halos.
Your comment lacked insight - was hopelessly superficial or was just an outright fabrication.
LOL...you know why his head was in a certain position?
It’s not just benign, it’s a notch below that.
Wrong. The photo was changed to visually underscore the Obama vs. BP headline.
Lots of mind-readers on here today.
The woman’s presence in the photo was a visual distraction, and the ‘meaning’ of the photo in the context of the magazine’s cover is no different with OR without her.
Yes, the stalin media does lie & deceive in their news propaganda.
My point was the core story was OBOZO vs. BP - which the cropped photo showed. The other people were irrelvant although the image of OBOZO "contemplating alone" was inaccurate.
This is minscule compared to what MSNBC did to the black, Tea Party American carrying a gun at a TP rally, cropping out his skin and then reported the TP members are racists.
Exactly, and even the header of this thread is an attempt to divine the intent of whoever edited the photo.
If anything, Obama looks contemplative and thoughtful—not depressed or alone.
Grow a pair, people.
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