Graphic Evidence Of The Racism Of Fox News: Racial Photoshopping

[Gurgen4]

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=6851

This is a journalistic lynching. And note, this is not Fox Nation. It is the mothership, Fox News. The editors at this alleged “news” network are demonstrating their overt hostility to both African-Americans and journalistic ethics. If this picture doesn’t finally establish the overarching prejudice of Fox, it’s hard to know what will. Their bias is so clearly being exercised with a zealotry that the Klan would shrink from. How do they get away with this?

By the way if you're on reddit please go and UPVOTE this thread so that more people can see it:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/s9azp/graphic_evidence_of_the_racism_of_fox_news_racial/

[goclark]

1. This is probably just the tip of the iceberg

They will get even more desperate with each passing day.

[Tunkamerica]

2. No... Fox just photocopies all the pictures it gets off the internet 10 or 20 times

Zimmerman actually looks like this:

[dipsydoodle]

3. I take your point

but you on the other hand have used a bleached image. Google his name and then hit images to comfiirm that to be the sole image that pale. Yes - Fox went overboard in the opposite direction.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. confused..since their logo is next to the lightened version. nt

[stp2k]

5. This is not correct, Fox used the original image.

The "darker" photo first appeared in the Miami Herald and was credited to a "Mario Tama" who worked at Getty Images. The photo appeared in an article which was fairly sympathetic to Trayvon, which can still be seen:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/22/2708960/trayvon-martin-a-typical-teen.html

A "lighter" version of the photo then showed up in other media outlets such as AP and CNN, as well as on forums like "Democracy Now". Previously, the media had used an outdated picture of Trayvon when he was 11 or 12, instead of a more current photo. Also, the "lighter" version almost appears painted on; Trayvon's face looks two dimensional and almost like a mask. Also, look at the black spot in the lower right hand corner. The contrast is too high. You don't get that with a photograph.

[toddwv]

6. You're wrong.

If you do a quick image search of Trayvon Martin, you can easily see that the first "photo", the "darker" image is a zoomed copy. The original appears to be a digital image so to get the look of darker photo, they would've had to have printed it off on a fairly low res printer and then rescan it in. Why would they do that when there is a clearer image available?

The "lighter" version is a higher resolution. The "darker" version is a lower resolution with fewer details and higher pixelation.

There is absolutely NO WAY that the "darker" version is the original.

And why are you parroting garbage like that? Those same "arguments" only from right-wingers and Stormfront infiltrators.

[Gurgen4]

7. Yeah right.

Look even if what you say is true then why did Faux News use the one which was more negative if they didn't have bad intentions. Why did they intentionally choose a "menacing" photo of Trayvon when there was a better one available?

It's all irrelavent anyways since

1) Zimmerman had no right to stalk an innocent child just for being black
2) Zimmerman had no business carrying a gun

Zimmerman is alive. Trayvon Martin is not, because he was black and was shot by a racist. If you try to defame Trayvon Martin you are in essence defending racism.

[uppityperson]

8. You are wrong. The original was lighter, was darkened to make it more like how dark he really was.

It is true that he was dark, darker than in that photo. However, the lighter photo IS the untouched one, with somewhere making it darker to more closely resemble how dark he really was. Yes, you can get that high contrast in a photo with the right lighting and development. Here's a link to another DU topic on it, good explanation.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002556986#post7

[pinboy3niner]

13. BS. The Getty pic the Herald ran is a photo of a POSTER, not an original photo of Trayvon.

Your explanation is precisely the one posted at Conservative Cave and other RW sites to absolve Fox and "prove" that it's the lighter image that is doctored.

What's funny is that at the Herald link provided, the photo caption itself clearly refutes the claim that the darker photo is "original."

Here's another photo taken by Mario Tama at the demonstration, showing the poster that the image that ran in the Herald was photographed from:


http://www.thegrio.com/specials/trayvon-martin/hundreds-march-in-nyc-for-trayvon-martin.php

I'm getting really tired of seeing this BS RW argument posted here as if it is factual and as if it has not already been thoroughly debunked.

[suffragette]

9. Reminds me of when they did these photoshops in 2008

None of this is accidental


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3554934#3555382

[Zax2me]

10. Zimmerman sure looks dark skinned in this photo.

Looks like they messed with his pic as well.

[EFerrari]

11. They called neo Nazis a civil rights group. How much more proof does anyone need? nt

[Ms. Toad]

12. As someone who does quite a bit of work as a digital retouch artist

both on my own images, and cleaning up after others, any non-film BW photo is photoshopped either in camera or in post processing. The natural capture is in color, and how that color is rendered in black and white (wherever that rendering is done) involves choices as to what filter to apply and which algorithm to use to convert from color to grayscale. (When it is done in camera, many - particularly cheaper cameras - don't permit much choice

And, FWIW, I have seen far too many images of white children who look darker than the darkest Trayvon image because the person doing the conversion didn't have a clue what skin tone rendered in BW should look like (or if they did know what it should look like, how to make it look right). And, many of those were done by professionals.

Not saying that deliberate "sinisterizing" of images doesn't happen, or that it didn't happen in this instance, but I look at the two images of Trayvon above, and my instant reaction to both images is "boy was that a bad filter choice."