Indie Politik takes Charles and Zombie of LGF to task over the claim that the San Francisco Chronicle deliberately misled its readers with a cropped photograph.
Anyhow, the post in question features a photograph from a San Francisco Chronicle story, which appeared on the newspaper’s website, featuring a young black woman wearing a bandanna over her mouth emblazoned with the words “People of Color say “No to War!”". The author of the post was at the same rally the photo was taken at and posts a few pictures of his own in attempt to reveal the Chronicle’s inherent liberal bias.
What the Chronicle’s picture does not disclose is that the group who the girl in the photograph represented was flying Palestinian flags and I can only suppose was protesting the Israel/Palestinian war during an Iraq war protest. They also had a *gasp* sign with profanity in it. The final few pictures, again taken by the author of the website, show the protesters being cheered on by a girl in a red shirt. The only problem, in the author’s opinion, is that this girl’s shirt also has a yellow star which obviously means she is a Communist. Gee, Communists at an anti-war protest? What’s this world coming to?
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Now I might agree with this guy if the girl pictured did not attend the rally the article talked about or was taken out of context of a demonstration, but as far as I can tell:
The student pictured attended the anti-war protest
The student pictured was protesting war (at the anti-war protest)
The student was there on her own accord, not planted there by Communists
The picture is interesting to look at and depicts a protester at an anti-war protest
Misleading? I don’t think so.
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