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Originally posted by ARTelevision
It's always interesting to see how blatantly and shamelessly our media lies to our faces. Isn't it?
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The exact same thing happened to Donovan McNabb and his fiancée... probably worse. She doesn't go to his games, nor do they appear in public together. He asks that the media respect his privacy at home, and gives of himself (a public figure) as much as he can.
When Donovan announced his engagement, one of the prominent Philadelphia papers took a picture of her, a seperate picture of him (since they don't appear together) and pasted them together. Then pawned it off as an accurate photo on the front cover of the paper.
This isn't the tabloids. These people call themselves journalists. McNabb was upset, and he should have been.
Noone polices the media except the public. Photoshopping and passing things off for real is a more serious offense then it seems at first glance. It's simply unethical to misportray a situation when people rely on you for accurate representation.
What happened in the McNabb case? The paper and other "journalists" screamed first amendment. Noone suggested impropriety.
I'm an accountant. We have professional organizations that would hang us by our neckties at the very suggestion of impropriety, and rightly so. We also deal with public trust. Lawyers and law officers and other professions police themselves. Why can't the media do the same?