{"id":726,"date":"2008-07-04T22:41:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T03:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/04\/faux-news\/"},"modified":"2008-07-04T22:41:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T03:41:17","slug":"faux-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/04\/faux-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Faux News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/\">Media Matters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the July 2 edition of Fox News&#8217; Fox &#038; Friends, co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade labeled New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe &#8220;attack dogs,&#8221; claiming that Steinberg&#8217;s June 28 article on the &#8220;ominous trend&#8221; in Fox News&#8217; ratings was a &#8220;hit piece.&#8221; During the segment, however, Fox News featured photos of Steinberg and Reddicliffe that appeared to have been digitally altered &#8212; the journalists&#8217; teeth had been yellowed, their facial features exaggerated, and portions of Reddicliffe&#8217;s hair moved further back on his head. Fox News gave no indication that the photos had been altered.<\/p>\n<p>After putting up the photos of Steinberg and Reddicliffe, Fox &#038; Friends also featured a photograph of Steinberg&#8217;s face superimposed over that of a poodle, while Reddicliffe&#8217;s face was superimposed over that of the man holding the poodle&#8217;s leash.<\/p>\n<p>Comparing the two photos, it appears that the following changes have been made: Steinberg&#8217;s teeth have been yellowed, his nose and chin widened, and his ears made to protrude further.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, a comparison of the photo of Reddicliffe used by Fox News and the original photo suggests that Reddicliffe&#8217;s teeth have been yellowed, dark circles have been added under his eyes, and his hairline has been moved back.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"320\" height=\"335\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/static\/flash\/mmfaplayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config=http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/tools\/flash\/config?id=462373\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/static\/flash\/mmfaplayer.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"config=http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/tools\/flash\/config?id=462373\" width=\"320\" height=\"335\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Media Matters On the July 2 edition of Fox News&#8217; Fox &#038; Friends, co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade labeled New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe &#8220;attack dogs,&#8221; claiming that Steinberg&#8217;s June 28 article on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/04\/faux-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-newscommentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}