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I just found this photo of Bush on the net
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/President-Bush/ss/events/us/081201presidentbush;_ylt=AnzLwhujdSdSeWXDKcipRNZvzwcF
It makes him look like a buffoon.
While I dislike Bush, the point to this question, do you think the news manipulates through these kinds of photo's?
Example:
The criminal usually looks like a criminal
The environmentalist usually looks like a tree hugging hippy.
The politician, depending on the sound bite, either looks noble or stupid.
I take a lot of photo's of people, and in one instance they can look like they got every cell in their brain working in high gear, the next second they can look retarded.
Remember the photo of Bush in the flight suite, with mission accomplished behind him, looking like a modern day Ceaser, to this, looking like a baboon.
Your thoughts on the state of our editorializing the news through picture.
Peace
Jim
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In the movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Jack Nicholson had busted all his friends out of a mental hospital, then went to a marina and ripped off a boat to go fishing. A man stopped him and asked him what he was doing with Dr So and So's boat, and Jack told them they had permission and named each of the mental cases with them as Dr. Such and Such and the camera panned through them and they all were nodding in agreement and looked every bit as doctors, even though they were all nuts.
The point is, reporters and photographers can make a person look they way they want. That does not make it honest. It makes it into editorializing the news.
Source:
10 years in the business of news, part of that was in the photo department.
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http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/President-Bush/ss/events/us/081201presidentbush;_ylt=AnzLwhujdSdSeWXDKcipRNZvzwcF
It makes him look like a buffoon.
While I dislike Bush, the point to this question, do you think the news manipulates through these kinds of photo's?
Example:
The criminal usually looks like a criminal
The environmentalist usually looks like a tree hugging hippy.
The politician, depending on the sound bite, either looks noble or stupid.
I take a lot of photo's of people, and in one instance they can look like they got every cell in their brain working in high gear, the next second they can look retarded.
Remember the photo of Bush in the flight suite, with mission accomplished behind him, looking like a modern day Ceaser, to this, looking like a baboon.
Your thoughts on the state of our editorializing the news through picture.
Peace
Jim
.
In the movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Jack Nicholson had busted all his friends out of a mental hospital, then went to a marina and ripped off a boat to go fishing. A man stopped him and asked him what he was doing with Dr So and So's boat, and Jack told them they had permission and named each of the mental cases with them as Dr. Such and Such and the camera panned through them and they all were nodding in agreement and looked every bit as doctors, even though they were all nuts.
The point is, reporters and photographers can make a person look they way they want. That does not make it honest. It makes it into editorializing the news.
Source:
10 years in the business of news, part of that was in the photo department.
.