Posted on 03/14/2016 7:46:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
Layers of editors and fact-checkers at the Columbus (OH) Dispatch and others involved in its production "somehow" failed to detect the creation of an obviously false caption to a campaign rally photo of Donald Trump taken by a St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer.
The photo, taken on Friday at Trump's St. Louis appearance by the Post-Dispatch's David Carson, had the following caption, apparently added surreptitiously, when it appeared in print at the Columbus Dispatch: "Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally in St. Louis. He was scheduled to go to Chicago for a rally, but canceled as his supporters became violent."
If any press story covering the Chicago rally's cancellation, for which supporters of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders have gleefully taken credit, has claimed that Trump's supporters "became violent" first or engaged in any serious acts of violence remotely comparable to that seen from those whose stated goal was to shut down the rally, I haven't seen it.
Here is the photo with the original caption present at the St. Lous Post-Dispatch's web site (photo number 40 in a series of 46 photos):
The caption reads: "Donald Trump addresses his supporters during a campaign rally at the Peabody Opera House in St. Louis on Friday, March 11, 2016."
Carson points out that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch "didn't run the photo in print."
Here is the photo and caption as they appeared in print at the Columbus Dispatch (HT Gateway Pundit):
Carson has also tweeted: "... for the record false caption on the Trump photo was not written by me." Additonally, for emphasis: "I disavow it, I'm pissed someone is using my pix with false captions."
Carson tweeted Darrel Rowland, the Public Affairs Editor at the Columbus Dispatch: "Dear @darreldrowland, it was my photo that had a false caption attached to it, I would also like to hear from you."
Rowland's initial response: "Been offline in NE Ohio most of day, sorry...I know nothing about it but just told all my eds about the situation."
Carson has also asked readers check the Columbus Dispatch's Twitter feed, @DispatchAlerts. As of 8:50 a.m., there was no acknowledgment of the caption problem, let alone how it got inserted or who did it.
Carson somehow has narrowed the perpetrator down to a specific location: "Someone on the design desk in Austin, Tx designing a page for the Columbus Dispatch." He shouldn't stop pushing until he gets a name, an apology, and an acknowledgment that the person involved has been fired.
Hopefully, there will be consequences this time around, unlike last summer in Iowa, when Ted Cruz was the object of an Associated Press photographer's "accidental" photo angle:
Isn't it amazing how items that get through the layers of editors and fact-checkers almost invariably smear or ridicule Republicans and conservatives?
The media again lying, his supporters violent, it is the Sander supporters who attacked police, Trump supporters, smashed cars, blocked ambulances etc.
The dominant political progressive machine includes both republicans and democrats, with the full cooperation of corrupt state and city governments. It’s no wonder that anti-Trump tactics are evident in Chicago.
Also not true:
“I spoke with law enforcement and made [the call to cancel] in conjunction with law enforcement, and I think we made a wise decision,” Trump said in a phone interview on MSNBC.
CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told the AP that the department did not recommend Trump call off the event and said they had sufficent manpower to cover the rally. Guglielmi said that the decision to shut down the event was made “independently” by the Trump campaign.
The whole thing was organized by Media Matters Dot org
Glad to see some reporters, like this photojournalist, calling their peers in news organizations to task when they do incredibly slanted things like print this photo with that entirely inaccurate, lying caption.
The reporter should be fired but her editor told her to write it. Actually I dont know that. Just being funny. But I am going to call and ask the editor if she plans to fire the reporter.
I saw it reported as Trump supporters’ fault on my local news last night. It was NBC, and I assume local NBC stations throughout the land made the same false report.
..wouldn't be surprised if a connection to T.U.
I found a pic by a BLM supporter on twitter that had thugs pointing automatic weapons at a kneeling trump look-a-like. I was on my phone and couldn’t link it. I wish I could find that...they really want to harm him.
You are correct.
Better know as The St Louis Post DISGRACE a highly biased liberal rag of the lowest kind.
Sounds like the guy who abuses his wife and says, “She made me do it!”
It was terrorists carrying Sanders signs and slogans. Their actions were more like supporters of Satan's daughter.
These violent scum (probably paid for by Soros) have to live with the fact that they are worse than worthless.
The United States Secret Service (USSS) is a federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
They are Marxist shock troop organized by communist front organizations.
Sanders is not the brains behind this.
The CPUSA is.
They must be dealt with once and for all.
Neutralized.
Final solution style
Or they will destroy us.
How do you know that Trump did not consult with LE on the ground or elsewhere?
I believe Trump more than I do some rahm emmanuel stooge.
Is this on FB?
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