Posted on 02/17/2004 10:34:27 PM PST by Timesink
Edited on 02/23/2004 5:38:41 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
A UC Berkeley journalism lecturer's 32-year-old photograph of future Democratic U.S. Senator and presidential candidate John Kerry has wound up in a forgery that suckered the New York Times.
Ken Light, head of the photojournalism program at UCB's Graduate School of Journalism, has found himself in the eye of a media and Internet storm after a clever forger inserted an image of Jane Fonda alongside his image of Kerry and posted the composite on the Internet.
Here the Guardian didn't do their research (but then, what do they read except Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky anyway?). Period documents, some of which are online at wintersoldier.com, demonstrate that Kerry and Fonda did share a stage at not one but several rallies, notably Operation RAW. Of course Fonda was a principal financial supporter of Kerry's organization then, and one of the many celebrities involved in supporting the VVAW (which were all AW but very few of 'em VV).
Anyway, the inflamed language of a foreign, and politically extreme, paper, isn't much use here in the USA. British Labour Trotskyites and anti-globalization rioteers, the principal audience of the Guardian, can't vote (except in a few urban Democratic precincts). I don't think they can even vote in Chicago, unless they're dead like the other voters.
You keep harping on the way this particular piece of biting satire has been used to discredit FR among people who detest and disrepect us anyway. OK, so you want to make a positive impression? You can probably begin by letting off your attempts to tear down others that have made a more positive impression than you have. You could also begin by making some positive contribution yourself. To put it bluntly, calling for the scalp of Registered is not a positive contribution. You certainly have not changed your spots and your late conversion to concern for FR is not convincing.
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