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We’ve talked a little about photoshop and digital imaging here before, but I’m interested to see what you guys thought of the Reuters photo that popped up over the weekend.
http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2006/08/where_theres_sm_1.html
I’ll go ahead and say, that so much is changed in the photo that I know he did it all on purpose. He probably didn’t mean for it to look so fake, though!
Heh, speaking of photoshop, do you ever visit Something Auful? They have a photoshop friday that is hilarious.
As far as the issue you posted, I tought about making a post about it but there is enough stuff out there on it already that my opinion will just echo what you have probably read before, for the most part.
I will say though, that there is a war being fought and I really didn’t and still don’t expect the full truth to be coming from either side.
Isn’t it great though that the internet can interconnect so many people that nothing gets passed along to the masses without scrutiny?
He probably didn’t mean for it to look so fake, though!
This whole thing reminds me of Memogate (which was also broken by Little Green Footballs). At that time the question was raised whether they would have gotten away with it if the forgery had been more believably done. It makes one wonder how many photos have been photoshopped so well that no one caught it. I hate being that jaded, but it seems like more and more people are committed to their own propaganda than they are the truth.
This also reminds me of two clichés: 1) Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear; and 2) In any war, the first casualty is the truth. This war is certainly being fought on the public relations level, and it appears that Hizbollah is winning, both on their turf and in the Western media.
–I will say though, that there is a war being fought and I really didn’t and still don’t expect the full truth to be coming from either side. –
Funny I’m in a discussion at anouther site about this very subject. One guy says the western press is bias, I pointed out this picture and the arab reporter responsible for it as evidence that very little in the press on either side can be trusted during war.
–This whole thing reminds me of Memogate (which was also broken by Little Green Footballs).–
I’m not surprised by the depths the lib’s would go to, to discredit Bush. I was amazed by the fact that anyone actually has enough detailed knowledge of fonts to know that the one in the memo was wrong for the time. When it comes to fonts, I can either read it or I can’t. Thats all I know.
“I’m not surprised by the depths the lib’s would go to, to discredit Bush.”
…because he served so honorably, right?
…because he served so honorably, right?
If his service was so demonstably dishonorable, why did they have to concoct phony memos in Microsoft Word to “prove” it?
Who’s they?