Posted on 08/19/2009 9:42:10 AM PDT by pissant
It's rarely a good PR move when a social Web site decides to remove a politically-charged image--the InterWebs get angry. One such case came to light today: A Photoshop mockup of President Obama as the Joker from The Dark Knight, superimposed on the cover of Time magazine, has been removed from Flickr. The 20-year-old Chicagoan who made the photo got an email from Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo!, saying the it had been removed due to copyright concerns. Plenty of tech pundits are saying Flickr was strong-armed by Time, Inc., which didn't like its brand associated with something so subversive. Others are saying that Flickr removed the image voluntarily because it was the subject of too much public controversy: the image has been mocked up into a poster by an anonymous third-party and plastered around Los Angeles. Pretty much everyone agrees, however, that the issue isn't copyright. (Below, the derivative poster.)
(Excerpt) Read more at fastcompany.com ...
778 items with the title "Bush Hitler".
After crack that the Son of OBama made about the post office they should issue stamps with the Joker Face as you have presented. No doubt would be a big seller.
It is good to find out now exactly who the communists in this country are.
Yes, but Time isn't the subject of the parody. Lord zero is. Time is being used and portrayed w/o any element of parody applied to them. They are being portrayed as a common news org.
Their failure to uniformly enforce the matter with regard to politics implies they are a political organization, not the "press" org they're claiming to be. Just more evidence that they are first and foremost, a propaganda operation.
Yep... I just placed an order with Zazzle.com as well. ;-)
Time Magazine has had Obama on the cover SEVEN TIMES since the election (not counting Michelle).
[The frequent cover appearances led even Jon Stewart, a Bush-hater who was thrilled by Obama’s election, to quip Thursday night on his Comedy Central show: Time magazine is like O magazine, like Obama has to be on the cover — it is like Oprah magazine. I think he’s been on like thirty times this year.]
Bump for later...
While I understand your frustration, again, using the example of FR, there are many more anti-Clinton and anti-Obama caricatures here than the reverse. Our job is to win hearts and minds to our cause, not to expect a "Fairness Doctrine" from privately-owned businesses whose point of view is not necessarily supposed to be neutral.
TV news should be neutral or at least balanced, because the airwaves are publicly owned. But image publications such as newspapers, magazines and web sites are usually privately owned. Many small newspapers make no secret of their leanings, calling themselves the "Wazoo County Republican" or the "Yahoo City Times-Democrat", etc.
Time to use photobucket or any other photo sharing site...
Re: “I actually saw a couple of these plastered to a telephone pole in my community a couple days ago!”
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I’d love to see them in my locale — have not seen anything in SE San Fernando Valley (VERY leftist area) :(
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