[onyx]

ROFLOL!

[Chunga]

Discrediting one's self does one's cause no good.

[hole_n_one]

Doctoring photos like that.......absolutely terrible!

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[AlbertWang]

I thought they were talking about this Photo:

[GeronL]

It would have to be from one of the most leftist news sources in the country

[#3Fan]

"...Lincolnesque expression..."

Lincolnesque?! More like Gomer Pyle!

[BigSkyFreeper]

It wasn't that he had no comment, John Kerry couldn't comment. He was packing his face full with a sandwich.

[Congressman Billybob]

Has anyone contacted the author of this piece to tell him he's incompetent, and missed the story he's trying to report? Then again, it's Berkeley and it may have been deliberate.

Congressman Billybob

Click here, then click the blue CFR button, to join the anti-CFR effort (or visit the "Hugh & Series, Critical & Pulled by JimRob" thread). Don't delay. Do it now.

[Conservababe]

I am laughing so hard. The media is too lazy to check sources and pics...and they blame others?

My compliments to our talented Registered.

[MissAmericanPie]

Talent will out.

[Paleo Conservative]

[Tall_Texan]

I'm impressed. Other than the from-out-of-nowhere slam of the guy who runs vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com, this is a solid piece of journalism even though it comes from Berkeley.

And it does speak to a larger issue which is when photo manipulations reach a point where photos can no longer be trusted to be what they represent. In truth, this has always been the case with careful cropping and framing you can mislead someone into thinking that something in the photo happened that isn't accurate. But the Photoshop crowd can really take it to extremes.

Personally, I enjoy the photo parodies as long as it is clear that this is what they are and not attempts to deceive the public. Just as with other forms of comedy, photo parodies are given wide latitude for public figures or current events. However, there should be a serious recognition by parties who create and publish photos that the integrity of photojournalism must be maintained or we will all suffer the consequences. It's hard enough to convince some people to believe the truth without giving them the easy out of claiming photographs are faked or doctored.

[Salvation]

We labeled it a fake before anyone else.

See #233

THE KERRY DOSSIER (post here anything you've uncovered on Kerry)

[Political Junkie Too]

To be fair, TIME magazine got a lot of heat for darkening the mug shot picture of OJ to make him look more sinister.

-PJ

[piasa]

"Fortunately, the media have risen to the occasion" and debunked the forgery. "The New York Times reported that the photo was forged and they printed both versions. Links to both original photos have been also posted at the journalism school web site (http://journalism.berkeley.edu), he said.

You didn't have to look that far afield to find a debunker, Berkely-critter. A Freeper debunked the image and spotted registered's work, and a whole lot of other Freepers were suspicious of it to begin with, asking the legendary Registered to fess up.

"The media is the guardian of the visual image," Light said.

Uh, sure... tell that to the LA TIMES! LA TIMES DOCTORED PHOTO

[SAMWolf]

The Fonda picture was a fake planted by the DNC to discredit the real picture.

[Ruth A.]

Light was a 20-year-old photographer when he captured a sober-looking Kerry addressing a crowd of Vietnam War protesters in Mineola, New York, wearing the anguished Lincolnesque expression that's become a virtual trademark.

Actually, Kerry was sitting in his photo and it didn't look as though he was addressing anyone. So, I think Light is taking liberties with his description of the picture. Also, Lincolnesque seems more like squinting in the sunlight. Now, Kerry is just haggard when he is without Botox.

I can see Kerry's legs straight out in the composite while Jane is standing with a microphone. Someone should have thought that seemed mighty strange. Perhaps, that was Registered way of clueing folks in that it was fake.

[DoughtyOne]

Lincolnesque? How about Fondaesque! That'd be more accurate, truth in reporting and all.

[trustandobey]

Proud to claim Registered as our own!

[js1138]

Even before the Times published the first story citing the photo without qualification, Snopes.com, a website devoted to exposing urban legends, had correctly labeled the creation a forgery, tracking down and posting the original photos used to create the composite.

Even before that, within minutes of the first posting of the photo, it was being questioned on FR. I believe if you look at the original thread you will find a post by me calling attention to the irony of the photographed even being named "Register for Peace". I suppose the NYT reprints news articles from The Onion.