Juvenile: FOX News Alters Photos of NYT Reporters As Payback
By SilentPatriot Tuesday Jul 01, 2008 7:00pm
(via HuffPo. click for full-size image of both horrendous photoshop jobs)
In case you needed any more proof that FOX News is produced by 12 year olds with the temperament of 5 year olds (not to mention the Photoshop skills of 8 year olds), here you go. After NYT reporters Jacques Steinberg and Steve Radicliffe wrote a story critical of the propaganda news station, Fox & Friends hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade get their revenge by showing very poorly photoshopped images of the two.
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After putting up the photos of Steinberg and Reddicliffe, Fox & Friends also featured a photograph of Steinberg's face superimposed over that of a poodle, while Reddicliffe's face was superimposed over that of the man holding the poodle's leash.
Below is a screenshot of Fox & Friends featuring the photo it used of Steinberg, with the original photo on its left. Comparing the two photos, it appears that the following changes have been made: Steinberg's teeth have been yellowed, his nose and chin widened, and his ears made to protrude further.
UPDATE: The Times responds:
Neither Steinberg nor Reddicliffe were reachable for comment Wednesday. But Times Culture Editor Sam Sifton called the Fox photo work "disgusting," and the criticism of the paper's reporting "a specious and meritless claim."
"It wasn't a hit piece," Sifton told E&P. "It was straight news. This was a hit piece by Fox News. It is beneath comment." Asked if the paper planned to respond to Fox's actions, he said no: "It is fighting with a pig, everyone gets dirty and the pig likes it."
I actually cannot believe someone would do this.
FOX News anchors, producers, as well as those who watch it and its various spin off programs, suffer from mental illness, there is no other way around it. These people are truly sick.
JHC!
Would we expect anything less from Fox News. Negativity breads negativity and is slowly consumed by it's self.....
and after this, the photoshopper had cookies, milk and a nap.
Why stop doing it if we've decided as a nation that 'news' outlets such as Fox can do this stuff and have absolutely no repercussions of any kind? Because clearly the viewers who take Fox News as anything other than a complete fucking joke are uninterested in holding them to any standard of decency.
They could spend the week leading up to the election having non-stop, wall-to-wall coverage of a gay
affair Obama is having with Osama bin Laden, and what are we gonna do about it?
That's just like Fox: No substance.
What can one expect from FOX?
Not worth watching
Well, since they don't do research or fact checking, they've got to do something to justify having the computers and to burn up time during the day.
Incredible. Just when you think they couldn't stoop any lower.
I hope these two sue the buh-jeebus out of FNC.
Honestly, I can't believe ANYone watches the crap Faux News puts on the air... their talking heads are the worst, absolutely the worst, of all the idiotic MSM has to offer.
Do you 'Merkins not have any governmental standards for how broadcasters attain access to your public airways?
This is huuuuuuuge!
Makes you really appreciate the talent over at Daily/Colbert, makes these fools look like kindergarteners with finger paint
Somebody's just gonna have to go over to Faux and put some pies in some faces. Volunteers???
More "Fair and Balanced" at work. Whatever happened to truth in advertising regulations?
The most outrageous thing about this is how those two douchebags tried to FRAME the Smear..
Every newspaper doing stories on how "totally the best in the world" that Fox news is or some vile shit like that..
yawn...
They are so desperate...
When reality hurts the cause you are pushing, make crap up and alter reality. These guys are as sick as the morons who watch them.
http://www.fauxnewschannel.com/?source=FauxNews
hmmm... altering photographs and showing them as factual whilst representing oneself as a news organization seems to smack of some form of litigious fraud... unless of course, fox has decided to come out of its closet and admit it's just been a comedy network all along...
What the fuck is wrong with these people?
The sad thing is their audience really does believe what they see and hear. Idiocracy on the march. Ugh.
(sticking tongue out) Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah! Made you look like a hobbit. Take that, you silly journalist.
Unreal.
The US Propaganda arm resorts to 2nd grade tactics. Apparently, lies aren't enough any longer.
This is insanity! How juvenile! What the Hell are they doing at Faux News, Besides drinking the Kool-Aid, I think their on drugs. OMG!
I have a hard time recalling ethnic stereotypes, but aren't Jews supposed to have big noses? "Widening" Steinberg's nose smacks of racism (or something) from our Fair And Balanced news service.
Seriously, what are they thinking? It's juvenile to say the least.
I always wondered why we had a section on PhotoShop in JRN 1100.
It all makes sense now, since the journalism department at my former university is run by Right Wingers - Karl Rove is a popular guest speaker and the chair is a former head of the American Conservative Union from the Nixon years.
I transfered out of there real quick.
judicial-inc.biz comes to mind. Eric Hufschmid, Murdoch's Jew hating relative, must be working working freelance.
Woah nellie. That's just wrong! Wrong and disgraceful. One of the things they teach you in journalism classes is that altering or doctoring photos is tantamount to lying.
This little stunt would get whoever did the editing canned so fast their head would spin.
why did they make him look like hannity? weird
Feeble.
I like the NYTs response. "It's like wrestling with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it." So very true.
Best thing to do is either go full force fury on Fixed Noise or just ignore them. The latter works better on little obnoxious children, the former works better if they're out control in the grocery story. Which do you think Fox is?
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Notice how they didn't really refute the content of the NYT article. That's just what Fox does. These attacks must be really hurting Fox by the way they're lashing out at people like the NYT and K.O. By the way, is it just me, but is K.O.'s schtick getting a little old lately? He has the same guests on night after night, all of whom generally agree with K.O. and there's very little give and take of ideas. Not that I'm looking for a shoutfest in the Fox tradition, but I just think it's beginning to be the same thing every night. I also notice K.O. seems to get most of his stories from the blogosphere, specifically this one.
it's a sad assault on journalism, but i find it funny.
Oh yeah? Well, I'm gonna draw a piture of you with boogers hangin outta yer stoopit nose. And wearin a dress. Wif yer butt hangin out...
What did you expect from Killjoy and Douche bag ?? What a fucking pair of losers.
What is decidedly not funny about this is a network calling itself "news", and then blatantly distorting reality. It's not even just juvenile to me, because it wasn't passed as parody.
If I were the NYT or the reporter, I would seek damages.
Think about this, too: fox is the network of choice of bush/cheeeeeeeney. We have some very mentally disturbed people pulling all the strings in this country.
I think this is great.
There's a street saying,
"Let the garbage take itself out"
cuz it usually does.
You may not remember guys like Morton Downy Jr. and that pathetic little guy, whose name escapes me now, the dude who is/was Rebecca Demornay"s (yeah i can't spell it, hell I can"t even spell Joelee, ar Angelina...I think anyway) father, anyway these guys all have a run and then people finally get sick of it. I mean really sick of it. even that drug addled gas bag fat dude is on the wane.
I am not one to tend towards optimism because pretty much we're all fucked at this point, but i do believe that these are the inchoate death throes of that ridiculous anti human operation.
Lollimom @ 35:
I would hope the NY Times itself would go after Fox as relentlessly as Olbermann has at NBC.
I'd like nothing better than to see a real battle in the media.
Play it out in the public media itself.
We need the catharsis and the change.
Faux Family Values.
God, what assholes.
Remember when TV journalists did real news? I'd like all the asshole right-wingers who are reading this to name me ONE instance when Walter Cronkite or Edward R Murrow ever resorted to this type of bullshit.
FOX is a "news" show as much as "Juggs" magazine is a college level medical text.
I'm so glad that C&L watches Fox so I don't have to.
Biggus Diggus: Yeah, KO can be formulaic, but it's still plenty watchable. For instance, he did a generally intelligent and serious Special Comment regarding Obama and FISA (though I think it's stupid to let the more feasible civil suits be thrown out), and he managed to work "rock .. uh uh .. terror bad stop thing" into it 3 times. Stuff like that cracks me up, because it's a complete shift in verbiage and goofy on its face, yet it still captures rightwing arguments pretty accurately.
Others have pointed out that KO's mixed up the guests a little by having that Hayes guy from The Nation on. And just yesterday, Hayes kinda disagreed with him by saying it doesn't really matter whether McCain fills his own gas (but then pointed out that the Republicans hoisted themselves on their own petard with their "elect an average beer drinking buddy" schtick).
On a sort of related note...
I've noticed that fox always casts "weird" or "different" looking people - by middle america's terms- to give the liberal POV. Women, people of non-european descent, or white people who look like Leon Trotsky tend to fill these roles, while the actor giving the right-wing POV always looks like the classic American father figure.
They do this from Hannity & Colmes, on down to guests making appearences on segments throughout the day.
They distorted those photos less than they distort the news. Still, hard to imagine that someone older than 13 did that.
Wow. I knew FOX "News" was bad, but this is a new low. The hackery and propaganda from them is unbelievable. Way to go, assholes (FOX, not C&L), you are doing your utmost to ruin America. These people are traitors.
bearcat @ 37:
Don't mess with Mort, man - you're picking for a fight if you do that :)
KICK ASS!!!!!
Spero-to your theory-- Colmes vs Hannity. That's no mistake.
The Nazis in WWII use to create unpleasant caricatures of Jews. How telling…..
fux sux!
Seems obviously anti-Semitic, no?
I'm all tapped out on Fox news sucks. No shock here. This is GOOD news. If there are ANY people watching Fox with a sliver of hope, this may just get them to realize what a sham the network is and bring them back from the darkside.
I Wish
I would love to be the one with a microphone in my hand asking someone at Fox about these pictures. Either you are going to be professional or you are not. Fox
ComedyNews can't have it all. If this is their version of John Steward type of journalism, they failed badly.Joseph
Not surprising, is it?
Why does this kind of stuff happen when Jon and Stephen are on vacation? By the time they come back this will probably have been thrown down the memory hole.
P.D. @ 22:
So being on drugs is bad?
We should hope that LSD gets into the water over at FOX...
.... Its people NOT doing drugs that makes evil crap like Fox news possible...
sometimes i'll watch one of the fox news programs to see what the other side is eating......i can't do it anymore there are people that consider fox solid news
The guy on the right really looks comical.
Morton Downy was a fucking idiot. Just before he died he wound up on the radio in, I swear to god, Cleveland and couldn't beat high school sports shows in the ratings. Although your caveat certainly has filled me with fear and trepidation.
Wow, this is childish even for the puerile Fox and Friends.
How shocking. At Fux???? Say it isn't so. (harr harr harr). It made me laugh, but what a bunch of wankers. They should be listed as the cartoon hour. It seems it would attract a bunch of ten-year-old viewers. Wait, it does attract people with that mentality; bu$h amongst them.
Wow. It's the Skinhead network. Amazing. The right wing in this country continues to shock. Simply electing Obama isn't going to be enough. Not by a long shot.
bearcat @ 37:
You are thinking of Wally George, biggest nosebleed of Orange County. I used to think his audience would get plastered before the show started to get themselves into a frenzy.
Wally freakin' George. Yeah that was the dudes name. What a pathetic little pud. Haha. Thanks.
Forkbeard @ 23:
Fox isn't being as juvenile as some here think. It's like when the Nazis put up posters of grossly-distorted drawings of Jews in German towns.
The point is to subtly make the accused seem less than human, not beautiful. In this case, a smarmy-looking miscreant conspiring against all-American FOX news.
I agree, it's pathetic, but to the corre viewers of Fox, it probably works. After all, when will those viewers ever come across anything disputing what they've seen?
Not likely, they usually get their only info. from.........Fox news
I am really surprised they were capable of figuring out to use photoshop in the first place. They must use it on their news cast, because that always seems to be distorted beyond recognition too.
Wow - that was just... bad. Not any mention that the photos were faked - they just played them off as the real thing (except for the final photos of course)
I also like the term "hit piece" - poor, widdle FOX.
The NYT has grounds for a lawsuit - I would argue this is misrepresentation.
Skin tone has been darkened. Both of them.
Ye Gods! Fox aren't even trying to hide it any more.
Biggus Diggus @ 31:
Do I smell a troll?
Like Scarborough or Hannity have a wider selection of guests? And Pat Buchanan & Tucker Carlson must be kept in the bottom of the MSNBC studio, because they're still on with tweety and Joe's blowfests EVERY DAY.
So what if Olbermann has a lot of the same commentators on frequently - I'm glad, because now even on other shows I'm starting to see Rachel Maddow, John Dean and other intelligent people with a comprehensive knowledge of facts and history that do more than just bloviate, inflate their own egos and parrot administration talking points. Halleluiah! Finally
As for Olbermann getting news off the blogosphere - again - Halleluiah!! As long as it's factual and tells the whole story, I don't care if it comes form the blogs. And where the hell else will it come from? the MSM? Don't make me laugh.
Next to Olbermann, nobody but Moyers on PBS looks at issues in as much depth, or goes back and fills in details.
The only thing I'd dump on Olbermann is the comedians at the end - but that's because they just aren't funny.
Fox will get away with this as it always does. For this to do any damage to Fox News, the majority of their viewers would have to change channels and actually have a look at real news. That will happen the same way I will have company over at my apartment the moment I clean it.
I also wonder if comparing Fox News to "12 year olds with the temperament of 5 year olds (not to mention the Photoshop skills of 8 year olds)" is not in fact child abuse.
Those photo's have been foxoshopped!
yakfitguy:
I very much agree with you. It's these kinds of subtle things that really screw with the American mind. However, I also think much of Fox's target audience won't notice this - or if they did, they'd pass it off as either a joke or as us being thin skinned.
Maybe other news services should start adding horns to all the Fox reporters and see if that gets any more attention.
rooth honky cracker hussein @ 68:
So anybody who criticizes KO is a troll? Please. Biggus Diggus criticized Fox's desperation in the same post.
They have some good lines. Finnegan's said very funny stuff on at least a few occasions.
Looks to me like they were trying make them look more Jewish.
there is FOX and Talk Radio, their viewers and listeners - everybody else is just a pinata.
don't want to get whomped? don't stand up to them.
they can't whomp us all at once, can they?
I wonder if they gave him hooves and a tail.
Forkbeard @ 71:
Faux has got reporters?
And why can't Fox be sued for defamation? Or have its license revoked?
They did the same thing to the previous photo, Steven Reddicliffe, making his forehead longer and pushing back his hairline. Here's the original pic: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/11/27/opinion/27reddi.jpg
Unbelievably disgusting. I never did care for those kinds of alters/caricatures, from the left or the right.
odanny @ 2:
When they were in school, they drove around in cars and used baseball bats to hit letter boxes in peoples yards.
"Conservatives" are real fools!
The fact that they made their skin look a little browner...nah! nothing to it...
Fox News does this because Fox News viewers don't care.
If you told Fox News viewers that Fox News did this:
a) They wouldn't believe you because you are not Fox News.
b) They would believe you and claim it's justified.
c) All of the above in true doublethink manner.
What a bunch of fucking losers - at the same time, this is shocking/surprising how?
I don't know if anyone's mentioned this yet, but this may make the Times think twice before hiring neocon hacks like Kristol and Brooks.
Do you see, NYTimes, that no matter how times you "reach out" to conservatives by hiring them, that the right wing (as represented by Fox) doesn't give a rat's ass about you? That they will always attack you no matter what you do. You can do a blatant, extreme right wing thing (like burning a cross in front of your building), and you will still be mocked, attacked, belittled, and treated like a b**** (as this photo doctoring demonstrates).
Now ask yourselves, is it fun? Do you like being treated like this? Is everything you thought it was? Do you enjoy being humilated every day of the week?
There's a cottage industry run by right wingers whose sole purpose is to attack, besmerch, and belittle the NYTimes.
The NYT? Oh - Judith Miller's rag, right?
Complaining about Fox is not going to do anything. It's like complaining about a pig not being clean. My suggestion: don't watch Fox. And I don't mean just their "News." I mean every show. Boycott them. Maybe Rupert then will listen.
I'm sure Steve Doocy and Brian KIlmeade will be thrilled with the photos I have doctored and disseminated of them raping children.
Exotic Blue Lensman @ 15:
I'm up for it - I live in NY too!
Funny - it trying to make Steinberg look worse, they actually made him look like Sean Hannity. He really should ask for a big apology. And damages.
annick @ 85:
There it is...stopped watching sports on FAUX in 2002. Had a good baseball team too. Got tired of Thom Brenneman's little homilies on how presidential dumbya is. I'll bet that they really miss me too: )
Fox News is right; nobody should have hit pieces.