Time’s Misleading Photo

This has been mentioned on other blogs, but it really is a remarkable oversight on the part of Time magazine. In their recent story on Ann Coulter, the magazine ran this photo1 as an example of liberal shrillness or something :




The funny thing is that the poster in question is from the obvious parody group Communists for Kerry. The URL at the top is a dead giveaway, or would have been a dead giveaway if it had actually showed up in the magazine itself. Here’s a shitty cameraphone picture of how the photo appeared in print :



That’s an awfully convenient bit of cropping, huh?

1 : To Time’s credit, they replaced the earlier caption with one that’s still inaccurate, but much closer to the truth.


posted by greg on April 22, 2005 @ 9:46 am

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  1. This is more than a convenient crop job, it is an obvious misrepresentation of fact. Most folks in the realm of photojournalism know this as potentially illegal.

    Comment by Fr33d0m — April 22, 2005 @ 6:34 pm

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