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At least one of the photographs released today by Iran and published by an unquestioning Western media is a Photoshop fake: (Hat tip: webs87.) UPDATE at 7/9/08 8:20:34 pm: An animated version at Suitably Flip: Mahmoud the Fauxtographer. UPDATE at 7/10/08 9:25:53 am: Here’s another one for my collection: ...
Fauxtography, Shahab 3 Missile, Nuclear Proliferation, Iran, LGF, Photoshop
Looks like someone got a little ... uh ... over-zealous with Photoshop in a yearbook for McKinney High School in Texas: Students’ photos altered in McKinney yearbook. Imagine posing for a yearbook photo and ending up with someone else’s body – or looking nude – in the final product. ...
In memory of Oscar Peterson. [Video] A blisteringly fast version of “Cubano Chant,” with Ray Brown on bass and Ed Thigpen on drums; looks like it’s from the 1950s, when Oscar was at his peak. (Hat tip: zombie.) [Video]
Our visitor count is pretty high this morning, because of this interesting link: The World’s Most Famous Photoshop Fakes. LGF has been deliberately blocked from appearing on Digg’s front page (no matter how many diggs an LGF story gets, it is never “made popular”), but the Photoshop article appeared there—so ...
LGF, Photoshop, Hamas, Haniyeh, Church of the Subgenius, Bob Dobbs
You may have seen a remarkable photograph from Gaza that’s making the MSM rounds, showing Palestinians fleeing an incoming airstrike. It’s an unusual picture, and lots of readers have emailed to ask if I think it was Photoshopped. Well, I’ve examined it carefully, and I don’t see any evidence of ...
From a most excellent lizard-themed Photoshop contest at Worth1000.com: Leaping Lizards! 3 (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
Michelle Malkin gets the fauxtoshop treatment from Wonkette and Gawker.com: Malkin Derangement Syndrome. I can empathize with Michelle; my head’s been ’shopped onto the body of a hot babe by a creepy stalker too:
Somebody had to do it, and The Jawa Report stepped forward...
Reuters, Media Bias, Photoshop, Ethics, Lebanon, Fauxtography, Photojournalism, Blogosphere, Editor and Publisher, Greg Mitchell
Here’s a textbook example of how to deliberately avoid dealing with important issues by employing that time-honored journalistic technique, the cheap smear. From Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor & Publisher: In Defense of War Photographers. Allahpundit has gone through most of Mitchell’s flagrantly dishonest piece, and there isn’t much to ...
Reuters, Media Bias, Photoshop, Ethics, Lebanon, Fauxtography, Photojournalism, Blogosphere, Editor and Publisher, Greg Mitchell
David D. Perlmutter, Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies & Research at the University of Kansas School of Journalism & Mass Communications, has an excellent piece on the Fauxtography Scandal—with a big salute to all the blogs who pushed the story forward: Photojournalism in Crisis. (August 18, 2006) — ...
Reuters, Media Bias, Photoshop, Ethics, Lebanon, Fauxtography, Photojournalism
Here’s an excellent example of how degraded mainstream media has become as they increasingly allow themselves to be used by hate-spewing enemies of the free world, in a Reuters value-neutral, determinedly non-judgmental article about Iran’s Holocaust-denying cartoon contest: Iran seeks to test taboos with Holocaust cartoons. Organizers say displaying more ...
Reuters, Media Bias, Photoshop, Ethics, Lebanon, Radical Islam, Propaganda, Holocaust Denial, Antisemitism
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an article on Mike Thorson, the LGF reader who tipped me off to Adnan Hajj’s fauxtography: Janesville man spotted doctoring of photo from war in Middle East. The furor over a photograph began in such a quiet, ordinary way. Mike Thorson, a Janesville artist and ...
Reuters, Media Bias, Photoshop, Ethics, Lebanon, Radical Islam, Propaganda
Absolutely astounding pro-Hizballah propaganda, reported from the terrorist viewpoint at Reuters by Arab writer Yara Bayoumy: Lebanese families praise Hizbollah ‘martyrs’. NABATIYEH, Lebanon (Reuters) - In the sheltered porch, women in headscarves and long robes weep gently, whisper verses of prayer and mourn a teenager as a “martyred hero.” The ...
Reuters, Media Bias, Photoshop, Ethics, Lebanon, Radical Islam, Propaganda
Ray Robison has yet another example of staged photojournalism from Lebanon, a car with verses from the Koran strategically placed for propaganda effect: Al-AP at it again with staged photos. Ray comments: Notice this car has a wall-hanging positioned on the door. An Arabic reader tells me this board has ...
Reuters, Media Bias, Photoshop, Ethics, Lebanon, Fauxtography
Randy at RightWinged.com has identified another multi-use building in Beirut: Reuters Attributes 3 Different Dates To One Building’s Destruction.
Reuters, Media Bias, Photoshop, Ethics, Lebanon, Fauxtography