NOM Tries (and Fails) to Explain Why It Manipulated Photos (used photo from Obama rally)

[WillParkinson]

NOM Tries (and Fails) to Explain Why It Manipulated Photos
By Lucas Grindley

When most people look at the photo behind Rachel Maddow, they see a campaign rally for Barack Obama in 2008. But when the National Organization for Marriage found the same picture, they claim to have seen "tens of thousands of New Hampshire voters who are part of our effort" to repeal marriage equality.

NOM's president Brian Brown tried to explain today in a blog post why his group had taken the copyrighted image and manipulated it to look like those same thousands of people were actually at a much, much smaller NOM rally in New Hampshire. They've since removed the image, Brown says, "to avoid the distraction" — not because of the copyright issues raised by those who caught NOM's fakery.

The re-imagining of history was first caught by the Good As You blog, run by Jeremy Hooper, who noted that the picture of thousands of cheering supporters was actually from Reuters and of a rally in Columbus, Ohio.

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/11/01/NOM_Tries_and_Fails_to_Explain_Why_It_Manipulated_Photos/

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. The propaganda is as thick as Elephant shit. Trust but verify!

[TheWraith]

3. More like "distrust and verify."

Actually that goes past NOM types. It's a good practice to have healthy skepticism about anything you read from any source.

[notadmblnd]

6. My grandfather used to say; "Don't believe anything that you hear and only half of what you see."

he knew what he was talking about.

[TheWraith]

7. Yep. It sounds paranoid, but skepticism is one of the most important attitudes one can have...

...in part because so many people practice it selectively. People have the natural tendency to be skeptical about things they don't like, and uncritically accept those they do. It's why Fox News thrives, and it's why we need to guard against "left wing" media which stirs up shit with inflammatory (and usually wrong) headlines in order to get attention. It's a technique that's been part and parcel of mass media ever since "mass media" ever since "mass media" consisted of reading the news directly to a crowd gathered in the Agora. Nobody's immune.

[NMMNG]

2. What a pathetic pile of lies

But then that's nothing new coming from Brian Brown.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. They are liars, theives, hate mongering scum of the worst kind

Liars lie, it is what they do.

[William769]

5. When truth & justice are not on your side (as much as you would like to believe it is).

This is what you are left with.

Recommended.

[Beartracks]

8. Maybe this is why they didn't use their own photo?

:shrug:

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