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Wait until next month! Vanity Fair is printing an article on a trip that I took to Costa Rico. I saw the weirdest lizards! |
Posted on 02/25/2006 7:31:48 AM PST by george76
MIA Peter Arnett magically appears in Vietnam journo reunion pic
In its December 2005 issue, Vanity Fair magazine manipulated a photograph to make it appear that veteran journalist Peter Arnett was among a group of war correspondents gathered on a teeming Ho Chi Minh City street during a reunion of the Vietnam press corps.
In fact, according to a source familiar with the photo shoot, Arnett was not present when photographer Jonas Karlsson shot a group portrait of eight journalists last April.
Instead, the former CNN star (who covered the war for the Associated Press) was subsequently photographed solo and grafted--apparently through the magic of Photoshop--onto the group picture.
Arnett, who attended part of the Vietnam reunion, which coincided with the 30th anniversary of the war's end, is seen at the far left of the Vanity Fair photo. His space had actually been occupied during the group session by curious Vietnamese passersby.
A photo caption claims that Arnett and the other reporters were "photographed outside their old hangout the Givral Café on April 29, 2005."
Well, eight of nine ain't bad. Usually, when publications combine images into a single picture, the resulting photo is described as a composite.
The Vanity Fair byline reads, "Photograph By Jonas Karlsson."
Piss-poor photoshop job, if you ask me. Stevie Wonder could have done better.
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Maybe Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson aren't really married? I mean, they could've "Photoshopped" her into the pictures when HE "outed" her as a Spy/HomeMaker years ago. Hmmmm....
Unless Arnett is about 7 feet tall, they didn't even bother to scale him correctly for the photo.
I'm removing #21, for the reason stated in #14.
Imagine how much of this went on before it could be exposed on the internet? I'd bet alot. Rathergate was just the tip of the iceberg.
Uh, make that #23.
I'm sure Arnett would tell you he's actually eight feet tall.
Arnett's probably pretty happy with the job they did. He looks about 5" taller than he actually is.
No problem. I posted it before I saw that #2 had been removed and was going to ping you, as I figured it was a copyright thing.
Vanity Fair (a Condé Nast publication) fakes up a photo of Peter Arnett, BUT YOU CAN'T LOOK AT THE PHOTO, BECAUSE DOING SO WOULD BE A COPYRIGHT VIOLATION*!!!
*file under Having Our Truth And Eating It, Too
So much for your image of omnipotence... :)
That is indeed the one of the worst photoshopped pics. If they are going to lie, at least lie well.
Hmmm . . . Been up all night
at the casino chasing
magic 21's?
The Stone Age Press steps deeper into the swamp of histoir!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
I'm now completely lost.
Hmmph to Conde Nast--but I note that the link to Smoking Gun works, and they have the pic. Sloppy photoshop job, seems to me. VF could surely do better than that.
Remember the font of fakes, by Dan Rather ?
The DUmmies still can not get it done.
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