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To: kattracks
    The photograph, taken at a Labor Day rally at Valley Forge, has been circulating across the Internet, particularly among veterans. It was posted Monday on the NewsMax.com Web site.

Newsmax got the photo from Free Republic. I believe it was Hillarys Lovely Legs who found it at Corbis and posted it. Too bad someone else gets the credit.

13 posted on 02/10/2004 9:35:47 PM PST by Spiff (Have you committed a random act of thoughtcrime today?)
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puh leeze. FR was *one of* the first, but like a lot of the articles on FR, they show up on fark first. And since fark moderates everything, it could have been in the queue 24 hours before it even went to the front page.


113 posted on 02/10/2004 11:18:45 PM PST by KneelBeforeZod (Deus Lo Volt)
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To: Spiff
Newsmax got the photo from Free Republic.

Newsmax also mis-credited the mock letter from Saddam Hussein as a victim of Bush's policies. That letter, which Newsmax lifted from another site that lifted it from here, was written by a Freeper on the thread about the DNC trolling for sob stories prior to the State Of The Union Address.

-PJ

116 posted on 02/10/2004 11:21:21 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (It's not safe yet to vote Democrat.)
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To: Spiff
To Freepers from Carl/NewsMax

Some here are disappointed that NewsMax didn't credit FR for the Fonda-Kerry photograph, even claiming that we "got it" from FR.

In truth, the copies that appeared on FR were "borrowed" from Corbis, featuring the CORBIS stamp across its image. Had NewsMax simply used that image, Corbis woud have sued the daylights out of us.

To use that photo legally, NewsMax had to pay Corbis quite a tidy sum.

As many here already know, NewsMax credits FR far more frequently than any other commercial news site on the Web.

And, without naming names, other prominent commercial conservative web sites have decided to ignore the Fonda-Kerry photo story altogether. Had NewsMax not raised the issue of this photo in the first place (See: "The Photo Dems Fear Most"), it would have likely never been uncovered on FR or anywhere else.

Since getting this photo into wider circulation involved a significant financial committment that others chose not to make, I did not feel it was appropriate to credit beyond Corbis.

Carl Limbacher/NewsMax

125 posted on 02/11/2004 3:07:02 AM PST by Carl/NewsMax
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