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Originally Posted by faze
she's a fucking politician not a model
women want to be treated fairly in politics but... this?
i'm sorry but this is why women should be shackled to the stove
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Well, Obama gets retouched. Why not Palin?
And this isn't the first time this happens in this campaign. Here's an example of a photographer actually shooting a cover of McCain and blatantly admitting she attempted to make him look bad (But she didn?t bother to do much retouching on her McCain images. ?I left his eyes red and his skin looking bad,? she says):
http://www.pdnpulse.com/2008/09/how-jill-greenb.html
Visual bias in the media, whichever side it supports, is incredibly dangerous to the very core of democracy. It might be an even bigger danger than biased reporting (e.g. Fox News), because that's most often fairly easily recognized. Hidden propaganda like this, on the other hand, creates ideas without ever even vocalizing them.