Althouse: "George W Bush cropped out of New York Times front cover image of Selma march."

९ मार्च, २०१५

"George W Bush cropped out of New York Times front cover image of Selma march."

"US newspaper accused of 'liberal bias' after using image of Selma anniversary march on front page showing Barack and Michelle Obama, but with George and Laura Bush missing."

५९ टिप्पण्या:

Larry J म्हणाले...: All the News that Fits Our Views!; ९/३/१५, ८:१० AM
amie lalune म्हणाले...: "Accused!" Ya think?; ९/३/१५, ८:१२ AM
अनामित म्हणाले...: Note that the Cops with dogs and Batons in Selma worked for Democrats.; ९/३/१५, ८:१८ AM
Jaq म्हणाले...: It's irrational hatred. Wait 'til ARM shows up spitting snot about the mention of his name.; ९/३/१५, ८:१९ AM
BarrySanders20 म्हणाले...: Maybe they'll have a journalistic reason for it, but that looks like active bad faith toward W. Civility bullshit strikes again.; ९/३/१५, ८:२१ AM
phantommut म्हणाले...: The hate runs deep.; ९/३/१५, ८:२२ AM
wendybar म्हणाले...: Not part of their Lying agenda of Whites hating blacks.; ९/३/१५, ८:२५ AM
TreeJoe म्हणाले...: They know how to disagree with a GWB policy, make fun of him, etc.

But they don't know how to process a former president they strongly disagree with when he shows humility, does good works in his post-presidency, and is not seeking to promote himself.

So they edit him out rather than deal with the cognitive dissonance.; ९/३/१५, ८:२५ AM
LuAnn Zieman म्हणाले...: Other blogs have wondered if perhaps George W. was cropped out because Bill and Hillary were absent. Why weren't they there?; ९/३/१५, ८:२८ AM
MisterBuddwing म्हणाले...: Having seen both photos, I suppose the photo editor could make a case that the uncropped version looks too "spread out," and that the cropped version looks more focused. And maybe the editor just flat-out didn't recognize the Bushes in the crowd of people.

But yes, the optics are horrible.; ९/३/१५, ८:३२ AM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent म्हणाले...: Really a punk move but airbrushing events is what liberals do.; ९/३/१५, ८:३४ AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) म्हणाले...: Yes, as The Cracker says above. Airbrushing is what Progressives always do.; ९/३/१५, ८:४३ AM
Fernandinande म्हणाले...: This picture just like the rest of the NYT.; ९/३/१५, ८:४९ AM
Phil 314 म्हणाले...: My hunch is it was more about centering Obama in the picture.; ९/३/१५, ८:५१ AM
chickelit म्हणाले...: I returned, and saw under the sun, that the swift is not yet to the race, nor the battlespace to the strong, neither yet brood to the wise, nor yet understanding to men of riches, nor yet favor to men of skull; but time and chance happeneth to them all.; ९/३/१५, ८:५१ AM
dbp म्हणाले...: I'm sure the editors at the NYT had no idea GWB was even in the picture. They were only concerned with making sure their lord, President O***a (pbuh), was centered in the image.; ९/३/१५, ८:५५ AM
dbp म्हणाले...: Phil 3:14 beat me to it. Great minds, etc.; ९/३/१५, ८:५७ AM
BarrySanders20 म्हणाले...: Phil is probably right. Obama is the center of NYT thoughts, hopes, projections. The photo represents the racial healing he has brought to the nation. This is all they needed for validation that his is a successful presidency.; ९/३/१५, ८:५८ AM
Brando म्हणाले...: There's no better way to advance the cause of civil rights than to tell half the country that they have no part in it because they're completely racist.; ९/३/१५, ९:०० AM
Rae म्हणाले...: As was recently said about the optics of the current Clinton scandal - the most damaging controversies are those that reinforce preexisting perceptions.

Here, yeah I can think of a photographic composition reason to crop the photo. But I think it's far more likely they didn't want to present W in a good light. Particularly when HRC wasn't there. It's always politics at the NYT.; ९/३/१५, ९:०० AM
Bryan C म्हणाले...: I also think the intent was to put President Obama in middle of the crop. That was a poor decision. This is not Obama's event, and if you have a photo that requires a wide layout to accurately portray the subjects of the photo, you use a wide layout. But it's not necessarily malicious.

Then again, the NYT has a history of malicious and petty behavior and doesn't really deserve the benefit of the doubt. So it's fair game.; ९/३/१५, ९:०३ AM
Hagar म्हणाले...: It would be interesting to know the backstory.
My guess is that the organizers invited the former presidents without checking with the White House first, and the White House let Billy Jeff and Carter know their presence would not be required, but could not very well cancel the Bush's invitation (I think I saw or heard that George Sr. was there too).
But they could and did arrange the front row and relied on the MSM to make it clear that Obama was the hero of the day.; ९/३/१५, ९:०८ AM
CWJ म्हणाले...: Hard to tell. But is it that old fraud, John Conyers, peering around Obama's left shoulder in the in-house photo?

He's done so much for Detroit after something like 50 years in Congress.; ९/३/१५, ९:११ AM
Moose म्हणाले...: How very Soviet of them...; ९/३/१५, ९:११ AM
CWJ म्हणाले...: "In-town" not in-house. Autocorrect, sorry.; ९/३/१५, ९:१६ AM
Hagar म्हणाले...: I think that is Sharpton.; ९/३/१५, ९:३२ AM
Hagar म्हणाले...: The Bushes would not be there without an invite, and if the Bushes were invitedf, so were the Clintons and Carters.; ९/३/१५, ९:३३ AM
traditionalguy म्हणाले...: The absence of Clinton I and hopeful Clinton II was not noticeable, so long as Bush II was erased.

All in a day's work at Pravada/NYT office.; ९/३/१५, १०:०३ AM
Skeptical Voter म्हणाले...: The NYT biased? No kidding! I'm shocked.; ९/३/१५, १०:०९ AM
Steve म्हणाले...: Nikolai Yezhov; ९/३/१५, १०:२१ AM
Paul म्हणाले...: Well how can you blame the Democrats?

Stalin did the same thing with Leon Trotsky? Cropped him out of a lot of pictures.

So nothing new here.; ९/३/१५, १०:२४ AM
MAJMike म्हणाले...: Heh.

The NYT is our Ministry of Truth.; ९/३/१५, १०:३२ AM
CWJ म्हणाले...: Hagar, You're right. That could be Sharpton. But I'm still not sure. I had not noticed the superficial resemblance between the two before now.

Was Sharpton mentioned as being there? I only looked at the photos.; ९/३/१५, १०:४९ AM
pious agnostic म्हणाले...: I doubt that Hillary would have been able to cross the bridge unaided; her walker would have been plainly visible to any camera, and her Darpa exo-suit isn't ready yet for field testing.

I'm not a robot, but....; ९/३/१५, १०:५३ AM
David म्हणाले...: I think the crop is defensible. To show the Bushes and keep the photo at the same size, it was necessary to eliminate part of the Obama family, who are strung out to the left of the photo. I can see why the editor might wish to leave in the entire family, to the exclusion of the Bushes, without making a censorship judgment.

To me the more interesting thing is that President and Mrs. Bush were willing to march without being assured of being front and center. There may have even been a preliminary plan, given the security issues.

Why were no Clintons there? First, they are generally in hiding this week, but their decision on attendance was made long ago. Clintons don't do much of anything unless they are the center of attention.; ९/३/१५, १०:५३ AM
Big Mike म्हणाले...: There are newspapers to whom I'd give the benefit of doubt, but the NY Times, LA Times, and Washington Post are not among them.; ९/३/१५, १०:५४ AM
David म्हणाले...: mr may be right that Hillary doesn't do walking very well. She looks unhealthy.; ९/३/१५, १०:५४ AM
Curious George म्हणाले...: "LuAnn Zieman said...
Other blogs have wondered if perhaps George W. was cropped out because Bill and Hillary were absent. Why weren't they there?"

I guess they did feel noways tired.; ९/३/१५, १०:५७ AM
HoodlumDoodlum म्हणाले...: Hey, just where were the Clintons, anyway?!; ९/३/१५, १०:५८ AM
Hagar म्हणाले...: Small, petty, and forever campaigning for himself.; ९/३/१५, ११:०५ AM
FleetUSA म्हणाले...: Libs have no interest in healing; ९/३/१५, ११:१० AM
Tom म्हणाले...: This makes sense now. It wasn't that the NYT were airbrushing out Bush. But, by removing Bush, they removed the need to mention that Bill and Hillary Clinton weren't in Selma. Bill and Hillary were in Miami partying with the band, Pussy Riot.; ९/३/१५, ११:१६ AM
MadisonMan म्हणाले...: Hey, just where were the Clintons, anyway?!

Fundraising is my guess.; ९/३/१५, ११:१८ AM
pious agnostic म्हणाले...: Hillary was probably just chilling in her meditation chamber on her Star Destroyer.; ९/३/१५, ११:३२ AM
jr565 म्हणाले...: yup the repubs are racist. They didn't bother sending anybody? Oh, they did. Well let's bury thet u dear the rug.
Hey where's bill and Hillary? The first black president didn't attend? Well, let's bury Thet under the rug too.; ९/३/१५, ११:३६ AM
Jaq म्हणाले...: The thing is that so many people still feel that reading the NYT or the Boston Globe, or the WaPo makes them informed.; ९/३/१५, ११:५० AM
Rob म्हणाले...: Hillary Clinton did commemorate Bloody Sunday eight years ago, when she adopted the verbal equivalent of blackface.; ९/३/१५, ११:५४ AM
Brown Hornet म्हणाले...: Like many other mental illnesses, Bush Derangement Syndrome is often a chronic, lifetime condition.; ९/३/१५, २:४१ PM
HoodlumDoodlum म्हणाले...: David said...
mr may be right that Hillary doesn't do walking very well. She looks unhealthy.

I think you mean "doesn't she look tired?"; ९/३/१५, ३:११ PM
Matt Sablan म्हणाले...: As it is, the picture they picked is kind of awkward [it is really hard to make out people besides the center.]

Zooming out even further, I don't think I would recognize either Bush without a caption telling me to look for them. From having worked in publications, I think it was an odd choice, but I don't know what other pictures they had to work with [or maybe if the picture looks clearer on the actual newspaper instead of the image of the paper.]; ९/३/१५, ३:१५ PM
Matt Sablan म्हणाले...: I actually like the bridge picture better [with the Obamas on one side, the Bushes on the other.] I can immediately pick out both sets, and it is a lot more interesting and dynamic [it doesn't feel as posed as the original picture.] It may not be a good picture for the front page though.; ९/३/१५, ३:२६ PM
readering म्हणाले...: The NY Times public editor has explained that there was no cropping. The Times published the photo it received from the photographer. The photographer eliminated the Bushes because that part of the photo was overexposed due to those marchers being in the sunlight, while the Obama side was in the shade. Pity. It would have looked good to see a bipartisan photo.; ९/३/१५, ३:२९ PM
Matt Sablan म्हणाले...: Readering: Aren't there uncropped versions of the image floating around? Maybe they're different photos than the chosen one taken roughly at the same time/place?; ९/३/१५, ३:३१ PM
ken in tx म्हणाले...: Just one more thing we have to learn about our own country and our own media by reading British Newspapers.; ९/३/१५, ४:२६ PM
Bryant Likes म्हणाले...: The photographer responded to the question here on Politico: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/george-w-bush-not-cropped-selma-nytimes-115896.html.

"he was not in that frame because he was so far to our right"

Does anyone else see the humor in saying Bush was too far to the right to include in the photo? :); ९/३/१५, ४:४२ PM
Michael K म्हणाले...: "My hunch is it was more about centering Obama in the picture."

I will hazard a guess that Obama did not want the Bushes anywhere near him. No companionable relationship with the source of all evil for the light bringer.

The rest was easy.; ९/३/१५, ५:३२ PM
Jaq म्हणाले...: It would have looked good to see a bipartisan photo.

Sure. These things always have a good explanation and they always break one way.; ९/३/१५, ६:२८ PM
Doug म्हणाले...: Hillary! didn't go to Selma - she doesn't need the black vote. She's got a vagina, so ... WINNER!; ९/३/१५, ६:५३ PM
RecChief म्हणाले...: Petty.; ९/३/१५, ७:५५ PM