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."
That is another wonderful Arnett (Fake but Accurate) picture.
Somebody needs to photoshop a "Baby Milk Factory" sign on the building behind Arnett!
You also need The Jack, and your own Federal Judge to boot...
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
Do you know of a way to copy and paste into HTML a copy of a graphic in PDF?
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."
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...
are you guys playing fizzbin?
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.
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.
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.
I wonder why Dan Rather isn't in the photo. He was Saigon bureau chief for SeeBS back in the 60s.
Thanks; all I have to do now is learn how to use Powerpoint, I guess.
"the whole photo looks like a collage..."
They are earning, while they are learning.
They should have 'shopped Rather into the photo as well to complete the con. In for a penny, in for a pound.
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.
VF jumped the shark when Graydon Carter went mentally ill over Iraq. From about 1997-2003, it was at the top of American magazines.
I knew it was fake the minute I didn't see Jane Fonda and Effin Kerry.
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