Media Outlets Slam Fox For Doctored NY Times Photos

From Media Matters:

On the July 2 edition of MSNBC's Verdict, during the nightly "Beat the Press" segment, which "look[s] back at media hypocrisy, agendas, and the amusing perils of live TV," host Dan Abrams asserted that Fox News "really outdid themselves this morning" -- a reference to the July 2 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, which, as Media Matters for America documented, featured photos of New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe that appeared to have been digitally altered. Specifically, the journalists' teeth had been yellowed, their facial features exaggerated, and Reddicliffe's hairline receded. Fox News gave no indication that the photos had been altered at the time...

...The controversy was not mentioned on the July 3 edition of Fox & Friends, and as of this posting, Fox News had yet to comment on, or apologize for, the doctored photos.

Watch MSNBC's Dan Abrams discuss the story:

Comments

[ROBOT8]

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, THE TRUTH IS THE GREATEST ENEMY OF THE STATE." -- Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945

[4wehttam]

To those progressives and democrats and decent Americans who watch FIXED Noise, I ask you WHY FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THA T IS GOOD???? WHY, OH WHY, OH WHY!!???

[livesimply]

We don't watch it. We only read about the BS they do. I try...I really do. Sometimes I really want to know what the attraction is to so many alleged viewers, but I can take about five minutes at most.

[KrazyKat]

"..As of this posting, Fox News had yet to comment on, or apologize for, the doctored photos."

Cowards. In spite of all of their big, tough talk, our Fox Friends show themselves to be irresponsible, chicken-hearted COWARDS.

And for those that would defend them -- doesn't this bother you, even just a little bit?

Cowards.

[protagonia]

Cowards, like their viewers.

[Sportswoman]

At least MSNBC doesn't doctor photos, and they have Pat Buchanon commenting for some balance. Comparethe writing on Olberman's show with O'Reilly. Just listen to the word written. You cannot hoinestly state with a straight facethat Fox even tries to sound intelligent. KO also went off on the FISA thing. O'Reilly has yet to criticize his beloved Repubs.

[ShamusNYC]

MSNBC also has Tucker and others - real balance from significant people - not window dressers.

O'R & Co have no real views of their own - they'll just take whatever position that the far right wants now. For example, look at the Daily Show's expose on Fox hypocrisy on the abuse of executive power (complain about Clinton's use versus full support for Bush)

Losers.

[BARRISTER]

You forgot former Congressman Joe Scarborough and wimpy Pat Buchannan

[ccpostman]

People that watch Fox News need to rip the "Edward Nigma" suction cup off their foreheads and re-join the real World.

Going through life as a Fox zombie has got to suck!

[SanityClaus]

Foreign
Owned
Xenophobes

It doesn't get any more oxymoronic than that.

[savethecountry]

Foxymoronic?

[jhoughton1]

APPEARED to have been digitally doctored? APPEARED??!

[livesimply]

Was.

[AnotherMike]

WE DISTORT - YOU COMPLY

[DrDemon]

Wow. You hit the nail on the head with that one...gOOD oNE, mIKE2

[RobinSeattle]

What is amazing to me is how juvenile this is. This reminds me of when I was a kid and used to enjoy drawing mustaches on or otherwise altering the appearance of celebrities who were on the cover of the newspaper's tv guide.

[protagonia]

RobinSeattle

That's who like Fox. Mental children in cars with jobs and families. Damaged goods people. Haters who are capable of breeding.

Not all of us come out good. The bad ones gravitate there.

[NoblesseOblige]

This is just the latest episode which clearly demonstrates--once again-- that "Fox News" is an oxymoron.

[stavros]

Short, sweet and to the point. Bravo.

[Forest]

We, as Gore Vidal claims, are the "United States of Amnesia." Fox News turned itself into a pathological arena to doctor the justification for the Iraq War. It s now doing likewise for aggressive actions against Iran - and we're just noticing how they doctored photographs? These people are traitors for taking the American citizens for idiots. Their doctored photographs are part of their ongoing deception. If you tune into Fox News, you are an enabler to those who're destroying our nation from within! Wise Up, Americans!

[FilthyPerson]

The headline said media outlets were bitc-hing about the photos.
The NYT, yes, but pretty ballsy, given their doctored stories.

But MM mentioned Abrams on MSNBC so that couldn't be one of them.

If a station has no viewers, can it really be called a media outlet?
Can it be called an outlet if nothing it puts out gets seen?

Heady philosophical questions, these.

[CraigR]

You saw it, pinhead.

[jdmccl]

I noticed the same thing. Dans got a thing for Fox. I never watch MSNBC so I really didn't see it. I saw the photos on Huffpo which is why I read for interesting stories that other miss. This wasn't one of those stories.

[CraigR]

Sort of like O'Reilly's "thing" for NBC?

[Indedave]

If a network's audience has the collective intelligence of a turnip, can they be called viewers?

[StrayTalk]

Three words to remember while watching Fox News: Fear*, Distortion** and Distraction***

*911, Liberals

**Lies, Photoshop

***Paris Hilton, Britney

[Conejo]

It's just the latest example of how low the newsmedia and some individuals have sunk. I am so disgusted by this sort of thing. How much worse can it get? Is there no honor and honesty left in this world? It breaks my heart to see good people damaged or even ruined by outright lies and distortions.

[DFL]

FOX CAN GO FUX THEMSELVES.