"WHEN FASCISM COMES TO AMERICA IT WILL BE WRAPPED IN THE FLAG
AND CARRYING A CROSS." -SINCLAIR LEWIS

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Photoshopped News

After New York Times reporters Jacques Steinberg and Steve Radicliffe wrote a piece critical of Fox News last week, the channel got it's revenge by putting up photoshopped pictures of the two men making them look less attractive. As you can see, Steinberg's teeth were yellowed, his nose and chin were widened, his ears were made to protrude more and the shadows under his eyes were darkened. The antisemitic aspects of enlarging the nose of a man with one of the Jewiest surnames ever aside, this is just beyond the bounds of professional journalism; of course, it's not the first time Fox News has tried to pull something like this:

How are these guys still taken seriously as a news organization?

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