Graphic Evidence Of The Racism Of Fox News: Racial Photoshopping

[Ian David]

Graphic Evidence Of The Racism Of Fox News: Racial Photoshopping
Posted by Mark on April 11, 2012 at 2:39 pm.

News reports are suggesting that later today the authorities in Florida will announce charges against Trayvon Martin’s shooter, George Zimmerman. Coverage of this story was handled by Fox News in a manner that is revealing and offensive – and wholly unique to Fox News:



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?

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[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. FOX - The KKK Channel nt

[Initech]

12. ...

[Sarah Ibarruri]

33. Perfect! nt

[arcane1]

2. Looks like they even furrowed his eyebrows to make him look angry n/t

[K Gardner]

3. I just saw that under Google Image Search for Trayvon Martin..

unbelievable, but they did this with Obama.

[WCGreen]

4. And Zimmerman is smiling...

I think they made Tray von darker because Zimmerman has some hispanic coloring. They made the victim look darker than the shooter.

[dmr]

6. They made Trayvon look sinister.

Shame on them.

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. Nothing new here for the mainstream American media, honestly; it's never just been Fox

Remember Time and their OJ Simpson cover after he was arrested?

[dmr]

7. Yup. It's intellectual dishonesty & bigotry. With OJ & Trayvon.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. +infinity

It's par for the course.

[Auntie Bush]

8. Actually, both pictures of Travon don't look like him.

In one he is much to dark. In the other he looks washed out...almost like an over exposed black and white picture.

Travon had medium nice brown skin.

[jillan]

9. And look how cute GZ looks -smiling and sweet.... and to me it looks like his pic was lightened?

If I move my laptop screen back, I can see PINK blotches on GZ's skin.

Anyone else see that?

[squicked]

10. they fire people at NBC for those sorts of things

I don't suppose F&^k news will do that!

[Ken Burch]

19. No...with F@^k news, whoever did that is in for a promotion.

[Daniel537]

11. A fucking national disgrace that network is.

There's really nothing more to say.

[Jamaal510]

14. We couldn't expect anything less from the Fair and Balanced "News" Channel.

[IMG][/IMG]

[Grassy Knoll]

15. They even make it look like......

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hoodie black kid killed guy smiley.
This is why fox viewers are LEAST informed.

[Ian David]

16. Least. n/t

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. well, fux viewers *have* LEASED their brains out.

To Satan.

All they've got going for them is brain stem.

[Grassy Knoll]

23. Thanks, n/t.

[TheWraith]

17. Let's have a check in: who's surprised by this?

Don't all rush to chine in at once.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

18. We should complain

but then I expect that there is no one to complain too.

Fox News should be closed down.

[dixiegrrrrl]

25. Could always complain to the Fox sponsors.

It worked for Beck and Rush..........

[JHB]

20. It's not photoshopping (but still discomFOXulating the facts)

The darker picture of Trayvon is from a newspaper photo of a poster (with Trayvon's photo) at one of the protests. It was in the news about two weeks ago when -- get this -- the RWers accused the "liberal" media of lightening the photo (presumably to make the horrible gangsta wannabe less threatening (sick)). They were making hay because a photo of a reproduction was darker than the original.

So of course, to make more hay, FOX uses the darker newspaper photo, while NOT using the Zimmerman photo that was in use at the same time.

[Gregorian]

22. Which one of those is the beautiful boy who wanted to be an aeronautical engineer? Who is dead?

Those fuckers. Jesus would piss on them.

[SidDithers]

24. K&R. Thanks for posting...

Sadly, I'm not surprised at any racism anymore.

Sid

[Quixote1818]

26. Huffington Post often uses this one on the AOL home page

Then the exact same article on their own home page will have a regular image of Trayvon. Huffington Post obviously knows AOL readers are mostly hard right Republicans. Still it pisses me off that even Huffington Post pulls the same kind of crap.

[Skittles]

47. he looks like a child playing dressup in that pic

seriously

[LisaL]

27. How do you know which photo is the original and which one is photoshopped?

I believe the first one appeared in a newspaper.

[frogmarch]

28. Faux changed the photo of

Trayton to make him look menacing. Bastards.

[shimonitanegi]

29. Verminnity

has already acquitted Zimmerman on the basis of the killer's story and John the mysterious eyewitness's account. The most disgusting thing of this case is that the police chief and state attorney also declared Zimmerman's innocence before thorough investigation.

[MineralMan]

30. Wow! That's really obvious, isn't it?

Fox News Sux!

[live love laugh]

31. Look at how they changed his eyes--a subtle but powerful removal of his innocent appearance.

And who can forget how they changed OJ's photo?

I was totally anti-OJ then, but now, I totally understand the racial divide that case created and had I known what I know today, I might have been on the other side.

[Richard D]

32. I did a little photoshop on this to create a morph

from one photo to the other. I believe that they also lightened Zimmerman's skin tone.

[SlipperySlope]

36. Could have been worse

Surprised they didn't try this:

[Sarah Ibarruri]

42. If they could've gotten away with it, they'd have done it. Trayvon had a very sweet face nt

[nashville_brook]

45. glad you did this

to this designer's eyes the photoshopping is on the verge of the ridiculous. it's extreme.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

34. They photoshopped dark blotches all over his face. I wonder what the

instruction given to the photoshoppers was?

[cyberswede]

39. Those were probably there

in the original photo (though not particularly noticeable). Adjusting the brightness/contrast would bring out any subtle shade differences and enhance/exaggerate them.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

41. You mean he looked like the former pic, or that they exaggerated the imperfections we all have? nt

[Blue Owl]

35. You can tell they used douche-enhancing whitening filters on Zimmerman's photo

n/t

[a kennedy]

37. When watching the charges being read on MSNBC and the Q & A afterward....

I changed the station to faux and CNN and Headline News.....out of the four channels faux was the only one NOT covering the Q & A session. I kept changing the channel to see coverage and faux was talking other news no coverage of the Q & A session at all.

[OneGrassRoot]

38. They're hiring!

http://careers.foxnews.com/2012/03/29/photoshop-artist-at-fox-news-network-6/

[Scurrilous]

40. K & R

[nashville_brook]

44. not subtle at all

[marshall gaines]

46. america

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america can be mean, vicious and downright disgusting when it comes to politics in general and racial politics specifically. this is a pathologically sick country with a lot of psychotic individuals running the streets waiting to kill someone..