{"id":489,"date":"2012-07-29T00:04:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T06:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=489"},"modified":"2012-07-29T00:04:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T06:04:39","slug":"when-is-photoshopping-considered-dishonest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"When Is Photoshopping Considered Dishonest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was browsing <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\">one of my daily reads<\/a> and noticed something a bit odd. The proprietor of that site used to be a bit of a right winger (though I am hesitant to call him a loon, as he generally kept reasonable standards even then). In fact, he was one of the original <strike>suckers<\/strike> <i>contributors<\/i> in the Pajamas Media <strike>debacle<\/strike> <i>experiment<\/i>. So he still merits anti-Democratic Party ads. A little while ago, I spotted one that struck me as a bit odd. I didn&#8217;t really get it at first. Occasionally our brains are on to certain nuances our consciousness takes longer to parse. There was something a bit off in an anti-Obama ad. I went back and looked at it a while later. I did some manipulation in MS Paint to see if I could demonstrate the differences that I could not describe. This is what I found:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_491\" style=\"width: 303px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/barack_obama_comparison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-491\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/barack_obama_comparison-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"barack_obama_comparison\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/barack_obama_comparison-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/barack_obama_comparison.jpg 584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">See if you notice any differences&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Basically, it comes down to this. Some Romney advertiser must have said something to the effect of, &#8220;We must make Barack Obama look slightly more&#8230; how should I say it&#8230; black, black, blackity, black in any depiction in our advertising.&#8221; And behold, we see the result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was browsing one of my daily reads and noticed something a bit odd. The proprietor of that site used to be a bit of a right winger (though I am hesitant to call him a loon, as he generally kept reasonable standards even then). In fact, he was one of the original suckers contributors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}