USA Today Removes Doctored Rice Photo

-- Citizenlink.org (October 26, 2005)

USA Today removed a photo of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from its Web site today after a popular conservative blogger noted it had been altered to make Rice's eyes look almost demonic.

Michelle Malkin, author of the new book "Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild," published the picture that accompanied an Oct. 19 story about the war in Iraq on her Web site today. She published below it the original Associated Press photo of Rice -- and the differences were shocking.

In the USA Today shot, the whites of Rice's eyes were lightened by computer to the point of making her look possessed; in the original photo, she looks stern but altogether normal.

Malkin included in her coverage a link to other examples of media bias designed to make Rice look bad.

This afternoon, no doubt deluged with e-mails from Malkin's readers, USA Today swapped its photo with the AP version.

"The photo of Condoleezza Rice that originally accompanied this story was altered in a manner that did not meet USA Today's editorial standards," the newspaper admitted in an editor's note. "The photo has been replaced by a properly adjusted copy.

"Photos published online are routinely cropped for size and adjusted for brightness and sharpness to optimize their appearance. In this case, after sharpening the photo for clarity, the editor brightened a portion of Rice's face, giving her eyes an unnatural appearance. This resulted in a distortion of the original not in keeping with our editorial standards."

To see the two photos in question, visit Michelle Malkin's Web site here.

Watch video exposing this and other abuses by the Main Stream Media (MSM).

Media bias can be seen in their article pictures

Here’s another example of how the media uses pictures to make a subliminal point that fits their hidden agenda. This discourteous picture of Bush and Rice appeared in a CNN online news story back on March 26th 2004. The faded picture of Bush portrays him as “vague” or “confusing” while the pic of Rice makes her appear as though she is pouting. I ask: how many of us, if someone followed us around all day would have compromising pictures like this taken of us?

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-- Citizenlink.org