Faux News’ fauxtography
This morning Fox News & Friends, a morning show on that cable news network that we all know and love, showed digitally altered photographs of New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg his editor Steven Reddicliffe.
Reddicliffe, who once worked for the Rupert Murdoch-owned TV Guide, has recently upset Rupert Murdoch through the mind control techniques he has applied to his reporter, Jacques Steinberg, who in turn, has written a piece about how Fox News is no longer going to be #1. Learn the sordid story at Media Matters. A KABOBexplanation and prediction after the jump.
So, okay. Maybe yellowing your friends’ teeth, receding their hairlines, exaggerating their chins and ears, and giving them dark circles under their eyes is now considered endearing. Didn’t I read somewhere that dark under-eye circles were once a hot accessory back in the 80s? Something about them either making you look like you worked hard at your white-collar job and got little sleep, or making you look perpetually coked-up. Double points for both.
Fox News & Friends showed the offending mug shots this morning while reporting that these two reporters had previously reported that Fox News’ place as the #1 cable news source for the past decade or so (gah, has it really been that long?!), is currently being threatened by CNN and MSNBC.
The story, which ran a couple of days ago in the Times, described this as an “ominous trend” for Fox News — a choice of words to obviously deliberately upset The Rupert Murdoch.
While seeking answers for Fox News’ imminent demise, Steinburg’s New York Times article found someone to actually say to him that partly to blame is that the competition has “cooler maps.” Ouch. So if Fox News’ current graphic design department is any indication of what the future holds for that network…
For the sake of Murdoch’s wallet, let’s hope they can find a Lynndie England-type of intern to blame for those crappy photoshop skillz.
