Economist Photoshops Obama Cover, Doesn't Care What You Think About It
Pro-capitalism British weekly The Economist will alter cover photos as heavily and as often as it pleases, just at has been doing for quite some time.
The few people who weren’t too busy nursing post-Independence Day hangovers yesterday would’ve noticed a post on The New York Times‘ Media Decoder blog calling attention to some fairly aggressive editing on the cover of The Economist‘s June 19 issue. In transposing a Reuters photo of President Obama to its cover, The Economist cropped Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen out of the frame and then mercilessly hacked Louisiana politician Charlotte Randolph out from right under Obama’s nose.
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