Vanity Fair's Photo Finagling

The Smoking Gun...Vanity Fair ^ | FEBRUARY 2

[rolling_stone]

That is another wonderful Arnett (Fake but Accurate) picture.

Somebody needs to photoshop a "Baby Milk Factory" sign on the building behind Arnett!

[an amused spectator]

I think under fair use, they have a defense.

You also need The Jack, and your own Federal Judge to boot...

[MinuteGal]

If the photo was published in the December issue of Vanity Fair, I'd be interested to know if the January of February issues had a letter-to-the-editor or other notice from Petah Ahnett pointing out the fraud.

Of course, being an old fraud himself, I'm sure Petah just shrugged and went back to collating his collection of pin-up photos of Christiane Amanpour.

Leni

[Old Professer]

Do you know of a way to copy and paste into HTML a copy of a graphic in PDF?

[IronJack]

There's no reason the fictional stories propagated by the dying media shouldn't be accompanied by faked-up photographs. You know the old saying, "One picture is worth a thousand lies."

[Calvin Locke]

When I was in jr high...back when schools were schools....

I remember the stuff on Stalin deleting Trotsky from pictures, adding himself, working himself into pictures and meetings
were he wasn't.

The more things change...

[isom35]

are you guys playing fizzbin?

[Richard Kimball]

You're right. Arnett is most obvious, because he's out of scale, the light is different, and they didn't even bother to slip some photo element in front of him. It also looks like they just faded from the brick sidewalk to the gravel where he's standing. However, the whole photo looks like a collage.

[Old Sarge]

I could be mistaken, but if you save the .pdf as a .GIF or a .jpg, you can then put it into HTML.

A screen capture off Powerpoint has always been successful for me.

[sportutegrl]

I agree. He is too big compared to the other people in the photo. It is silly looking, like he is in the land of small people.

[texasbluebell]

I wonder why Dan Rather isn't in the photo. He was Saigon bureau chief for SeeBS back in the 60s.

[Old Professer]

Thanks; all I have to do now is learn how to use Powerpoint, I guess.

[george76]

"the whole photo looks like a collage..."

They are earning, while they are learning.

[george76]

[A.A. Cunningham]

They should have 'shopped Rather into the photo as well to complete the con. In for a penny, in for a pound.

[squarebarb]

You are so right about women's magazines.

I never read them and haven't for years. But one day I took my mother-in-law to a hair salon and sat and read one. I forget which one it was, one of the run-of-the-mill ones.

There was a little quiz about what kinds of couples have the best sex. The answer was, Lesbian couples.

I couldn't believe it.

[denydenydeny]

VF jumped the shark when Graydon Carter went mentally ill over Iraq. From about 1997-2003, it was at the top of American magazines.

[JennysCool]

I agree with that. You still find an occasional can't-miss article -- Hitchens writes for them, after all! -- but Carter's moonbattery has really infected the magazine. By the way, for those unfamiliar, Vanity Fair isn't a "women's magazine" -- more like a New Yorker or Esquire.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Fake, but accurate. Trademark MSM

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I knew it was fake the minute I didn't see Jane Fonda and Effin Kerry.