Posted on 09/27/2005 4:05:54 PM PDT by Brian Mosely
Now, let's take a closer look at this image.
By chance, I took a photo of the same girl just a few moments later. Looks practically identical, doesn't it?
But you might notice that my picture is lower resolution. That's because it's a zoomed-in portion of a much larger photograph. I cropped off the other parts of the picture to get a close-up of the girl.
But what would happen if I hadn't cropped off so much? Let's take a step backward and reveal what the San Francisco Chronicle didn't want you to see.
Here's the same photo without as much cropping, revealing more of the context. You can see that the girl's protest contingent also sported Palestinian flags and obscene placards.
Now let's take another step back.
Here's my full original photo, uncropped. Now we can see that the girl is just one of several teenagers, all wearing terrorist-style bandannas covering their faces.
But, as you'll notice, the bandannas are all printed with the same design. Was this a grassroots protest statement the teenagers had come up with all by themselves?
To find out, let's take a look at another photo in the series, taken at the same time:
Oops -- it looks like they're actually being stage-managed by an adult, who is giving them directions and guiding them toward the front of the march. But who is she?
The last picture in the series reveals all.
It turns out that the woman giving directions belongs to one of the Communist groups organizing the rally -- if her t-shirt is to be believed, since it depicts
the flag of Communist Vietnam, which has been frequently displayed by such groups at protest rallies in the U.S. for decades.
The San Francisco Chronicle featured the original photograph on its front page in order to convey a positive message about the rally -- perhaps that even politically aware teenagers were inspired to show up and rally for peace, sporting the message, "People of Color say 'No to War!'" And that served the Chronicle's agenda.
But this simple analysis reveals the very subtle but insidious type of bias that occurs in the media all the time. The Chronicle did not print an inaccuracy, nor did it doctor a photograph to misrepresent the facts. Instead, the Chronicle committed the sin of omission: it told you the truth, but it didn't tell you the whole truth.
Because the whole truth -- that the girl was part of a group of naive teenagers recruited by Communist activists to wear terrorist-style bandannas and carry Palestinian flags and obscene placards -- is disturbing, and doesn't conform to the narrative that the Chronicle is trying to promote. By presenting the photo out of context, and only showing the one image that suits its purpose, the Chronicle is intentionally manipulating the reader's impression of the rally, and the rally's intent.
Such tactics -- in the no-man's-land between ethical and unethical -- are commonplace in the media, and have been for decades. It is only now, with the advent of citizen journalism, that we can at last begin to see the whole story and realize that the public has been manipulated like this all along.
Flippin' Commies, all.
Sure hope these chickies enjoy their faces covered...cuz if they get their way, it's gonna be a burkha.
Brian, EXCELLENT post...kstewskis, thanks for the ping!
Outstanding work from one of my favorite posters here.
Great work Sir!
This is AMAZING. Honestly - I'm spellbound. Incredible.
Flagrant act of photo journalism - excellent, just excellent!!
Bump.
WOW! in one post you exposed the blatant anti-American media bias. Wow...
Bump!
dak on LGF posted an excellent point...there's much more to this story than the SF Chronicle and the photographs. How many more people from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam were at the rally? Were they Americans who had been recruited or people who came here from said country? Where did the funding come from for the T-shirts, masks, etc. (is the government of Vietnam funnelling funds to these groups)? From where do they get their marching orders? With what other groups are they affiliated? How exactly are they networked? Methinks we are only staring at the tip of a much larger iceberg here.
TERRIFIC CATCH.
KUDOS.
Bump for the truth! Nice job Brian!
Good work, Brian. My hat is off to you. You are revealing a story which should be more broadly told.
This is fantastic work, thank you so much for posting it.
the term "usefull idiots" comes to mind. One has to wonder if the "idiots" even realized what they were being used for or by whom.
bttt
WOW! I know that most of the so called Peace protesters are communists, but the public doesn't. This is one of the reasons why. The media covers this up.
Excellent. The MSM hasn't got a chance. What's the frequency?
Uhh, it's more like what are you trying to do here? You seem to be implying that Zombie is guilty of some sort of Chronicle-like mendacity of his own. Hey, he posted his photos of the event to let us make up our own minds as to whether his or the Chronicle's more accurately capture the flavor of the march. He already admitted his photos weren't taken at the same time, so I don't know what your sleuthing accomplishes.
Note to self for next time:
First, make sign.
THEN smoke.
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