Well, almost always..........
Posted on 11/29/2005 11:58:08 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99
NEW YORK Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan and her book publisher are upset about Associated Press and Reuters photos that allegedly presented a misleading impression of her book signing last weekend in Texas.
Sheehan, whose soldier son was killed in Iraq, gained wide fame last summer in an antiwar protest near President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, and then in a march in Washington, D.C. She returned to Crawford last week for a Thanskgiving protest. Her new book, “Not One More Mother's Child,” had just been published, and her publisher organized a book signing in a large tent in Crawford on Saturday.
Photos of the event, carried widely on the Web, and then picked up by conservative blogs, seemed to imply that the book signing was a bust. The photos showed Sheehan looking dejected, sitting at a table, with no one in the tent except for a couple of photographers. The AP caption simply read: “Anti-war activist CindySheehan waits for people to show up at her book signing near President Bush's ranch on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005 in Crawford, Texas.”
The Washington Post, which carried Evan Vucci's AP photo, noted that at a protest the same day Sheehan had addressed a crowd of only about 100. “In the morning,” the Post observed, “Sheehan signed copies of her new book, being published this week, for an even smaller crowd,” although it cited bad weather as a possible factor.
But in a statement today, Sheehan accused “right-wing” sites of “spreading a false story that nobody bought my book at Camp Casey on Saturday. That is not true, I sold all 100 copies and got writer's cramp signing them. Photos were taken of me before the people got in line to have me sign the book. We made $2000 for the peace house.”
Her publisher, Arnie Kotler at Koa Books, meanwhile released a letter to her supporters, charging that “AP and Reuters posted photos - I can't imagine why - of Cindy sitting at the book table between signings, rather than while someone was at the table. And now the smear websites are circulating an article, with these photos, that Cindy gave a signing and nobody came. It's simply not true…. the benefit books signing in Crawford, Texas on November 26, 2005 was well attended and a huge success.”
Asked for a response, an AP spokesman commented this afternoon:
"Photographer Evan Vucci, queried about the incident today said that he was present at the book signing from about 10 a.m. to about 11 a.m. During that time, he said, people were coming in to have their books signed in small groups of a few at a time.
"At the time the photos were taken 'maybe 5 people had come in,' Vucci says, and Sheehan was waiting for more to stop by, which they did individually as well as in very small groups. Therefore the wording of the caption is accurate in that Sheehan was waiting for people to show up at her signing."
It's not just that. Last time i checked
$15 x 100 still equaled $1,500...*not* $2,00o.
(BD whistles at the corners of the ceilng with a wry smirk.)
Well, almost always..........
We'll have to send her some cheese to have with her whine!
Can somebody find the MSM gaggle photos? The close up is of a grieving Sheehan with Sharpton, both looking remorsefully upon a bunch of white crosses. The "pan out" includes a gaggle of media camera's and microphones around her, revealing what a drama spectacle she's posing for.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Heh, heh, she's fine with THOSE misleading photos, but upset with the truthful ones!!! LOL
I know, the photographer photo-shopped OUT the five people in line for a book!
Book??? Looks more like one of those leaflets they used to drop from airplanes a few wars ago.....
The paperback published by Koa Publishing has an initial print run of 20,000 copies. Sheehan said she plans to embark on a book tour after resuming her protest in Crawford over Thanksgiving week.
Could be a long tour if she plans on selling them all.
http://www.news10.net/storyfull2.aspx?storyid=14385
Originally they were going to print 25,000 books but cut it back to 20,000.
It's the first book printed by KOA Publishing but it's only a paperback(which is all they do, no hardbacks)
CD said she signed and sold 100 books and made $2,000.
No-one in their right mind would pay $20 for a paperback would they? I know I wouldn't.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PEACE_MOM_BOOK?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1530941/posts
read comments #2 & #5
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Hilarity BUMP!
Fine, Cindy. Then show us pictures of the long line of book-buyers. Bet you can't, cuz there weren't any!
So much for the rats' next Patty Murray.
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