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

[rwe]

Dan Abrams and media matters and Huff are NOT media outlets...

[AfricanLived]

Yes they are. How are they not?

[Jeff1958]

Consider the source. RWE = right wing eunuch

[DesertDavey]

Duh. Because RWE doesn't agree with the conclusion that they reach on some issues. You see, AfricanLived, for conservatives like RWE, a network's "newsworthiness" is wholly dependant on how well it conforms to the readers' pre-determined political positions on the issues. Thus, NO liberal-leaning outlet is a legitimate news source for people like RWE. HOW ELSE could anybody say, with a straight face, that FauxNews is "fair and balanced"? The only way is by changing the definition of the words "fair", "balanced", "media", and "truth".

[whitewaterwillie]

Problem is that nobody on the right watches MSNBC. I doubt Fox would make an apology unless more of the MSM picked up the story. Too bad, but it just shows you how low Fox stoops on a regular basis. Did they every apologize for that Obama/Madras debacle?

[Destin]

I wonder how long it will be before Fox starts using the V For Vendetta excuse of "we don't fabricate the news, that's the governments job"?? ;)

[cyranorox]

The night of the 4th of November, 2008, shall never, ever, be forgot!
Vote.
There is a difference.

[Destin]

I hope you are right, but as someone pointed out to me earlier tonight when I mentioned that I had always voted for change, but nobody ever delivered. They reminded me that the only change that takes place, is some of the names on the ballots from election to election. Otherwise, no other changes.

I am enlightened. ;)

[gevan]

Wait. How do we know that it is the FOX photos that are the doctored ones?

[kellygrrrl]

cuz they're not even good at it

a middle schooler could do a better Photoshop

just like the juvenile sound editing when "someone" took the word "really" out of MO's statement

[Nochnoi]

I hope an 8th grader could not do better because I am still learning Photoshop..... and I am going to feel like a real dork if that is true....... ; )

[chronic]

One must be really dense in the skull to even watch that channel for 1/2 a second!

[indypete]

Watch, yes (pretty gals with nice boobies on screen... at my age it's all I've got!) listen, eeeeh... not so much!

[ibsteve2u]

I betcha Murdoch and Bush would get along like two peas in a pod: Neither one of 'em holds anything to be sacred, from honest and factual journalism all the way up to the Constitution.

[MrFingers]

After the fist jab comment and now this puerile stunt, I don't know why any Democratic official who takes him or herself seriously would ever appear on this network.

[lisakaz2]

Of course they won't admit it. Have they apologized for the stooopid "terrist fist jab" comment? Not even when Bu$hies did 'em.