Friday, May 09, 2008
The top fifteen doctored photographs
Here is a proposed list of the "top fifteen" manipulated photographs. Almost all of them will be familiar to you, and in some cases you, at least, will know that bloggers uncovered the fraud (see, e.g., Lebanon).
CWCID: Good Shit (main page NSFW).
3 Comments:
By 
Buce, at
Sat May 10, 12:32:00 AM:
The first page of Kundera, Book of Laughter and Forgetting:
In February 1948, the Communist leader Klement Gottwald stepped out on the balcony of a Baroque palace in Prague to harangue hundreds of thousands of citizens massed in Old Town Square. That was a great turning point in the history of Bohemia. A fateful moment of the kind that occurs only once or twice in a millennium.
Gottwald was flanked by his comrades, with Clemntis standing close to him. It was snowing and cold, and Gottwald was bareheaded. Bursting with solicitude, Clementis took off his fur hat and set it on Gottwald’s head.
The propaganda section made hundreds of thousands of copies of the photograph taken on the balcony where Gottwald, in a fur hat and surrounded by his comrades, spoke to the people. On that balcony the history of Communist Bohemia began. Every child knew that photography from seeing it on posters and in schoolbooks and museums.
Four years later, Clementis was charged with treason and hanged. The propaganda section immediately made him vanish from history and, fo course, from all photographs. Eve r since, Gottwald has been alone on the balcony. Where Clementis stood, there is only the bare palace wall. Nothing remains of Clementis but the fur hat on Gottwald’s head.
By Buce, at
Sat May 10, 12:41:00 AM:
Aftherthought to the above: Wiki has links to the original and the revised Gottwald/Clementis picture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladim%C3%ADr_Clementis
By 
, at
Sun May 11, 11:35:00 AM:
How about the so called MILLION MOM MARCH their wasnt close to being a million moms but the liberal left-wing news media made it look that way YOU CANT TRUST THOSE LYING LIBERAL LEFT-WING JOURNALISTS
