WaPo Protest Photo Fun



It is apparent that the WaPo needs to hire some new photo editors. A couple of examples from their coverage of yesterday's anti-war protest.



Note how the caption reads "Cindy Sheehan makes a victory sign..." This is disturbing on a couple of levels.

1 - That gesture hasn't been recognized as the "Victory" sign since roughly around WWII. Somewhere along the line since then the long-haired, hemp-wearing, hemp-smoking hippies misappropriated it as the "Peace" sign. Get a clue!

2 - Perhaps the editor lacks any sense of irony, but this crowd has absolutely nothing to do with victory! Just the opposite in fact. Perhaps the editor was trying an Orwellian 1984 word transformation where "victory" now means "retreat".

Either way, the editor is a loser. And who is that lonely looking elected official standing next to Cindy? The WaPo doesn't give her and love.... Poor Cynthia, how far you have fallen.

I did like this photo....



In their attempt to show the size of the anti-war crowd (though it is a solid group up front, there seems to be a big gap further back on the right side), they didn't manage to crop out the counter-protestors at the bottom along with their great sign. Gotta love it. How did they not crop that out? ;-)

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin has great coverage, as does Flopping Aces who also has some great pix including a close up of the sign above.

Posted: Sun - March 18, 2007 at 08:02 AM          

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