Thursday, July 10, 2008

Vanity Fair Gives FOX "News" a Taste of its Own Medicine

Images from source, Vanity Fair

Not too long ago, the reportedly lame (and oddly named) FOX & Friends morning "news" program altered two reporters' portraits without telling their audience. One of the reporters was Jewish, and the allusion to Nazi propaganda caricatures was lost on no one. There were also lame excuses given that other (read: Countdown with Keith Olbermann) cable news shows alter photos "all the time." Never mind that such photos on Countdown are always very obvious, and that FOX & Friends' alterations were not.

Anyway, turnabout is fair play, as they say, and so Vanity Fair has produced a group of PhotoShopped shots of FOX "News" familiar faces. Bravo!

[Excerpt]



Photoshop of Horrors: The Frightful Faces of Fox News

Last week, Media Matters pointed out that Fox & Friends, the Fox News program hosted by Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade, had aired doctored photos of two New York Times reporters who had dared to write semi-critically of Roger Ailes’s right-leaning cable network. . .

Read more at: Vanity Fair


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