Monday, April 14, 2014
"DC mag Photoshops the White House press secretary's bookshelves to fill in the blanks"
For some time, I've been advising NOT to believe everything you see in the media.
Technical manipulation of just about everything to gain advantage or promote an agenda is going on at all times...
Technical manipulation of just about everything to gain advantage or promote an agenda is going on at all times...
The U.K. Daily Mail's David Martosko has this example and story:
"The political Twittersphere erupted into guffaws Saturday after a women's lifestyle magazine published a soft profile of ABC journalist Claire Shipman – the wife of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney – and applied ham-fisted Photoshop edits to a photo of the family bookshelf.
Now it's not so empty.
The photograph shows Carney and Shipman standing in front of a briefing podium, miming the routine of a press conference by taking questions from their enthusiastic children. The bookshelf is situated behind them.
A dozen or more cut-and-paste operations later, 12-year-old Hugo Carney's left pinky finger wound up halfway across the room, left behind when a book jacket was cloned.
That's just the most obvious edit."
