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| This month's best "where's the fact checker" mainstream media gaffe - "Microsoft's iPhone hacked!" | | Date Created: 27 Aug, 2007, 11:50 AM |
Click on the image below to enlarge, and discover how Australia's biggest selling daily newspaper - owned by Rupert's News Corporation - must have given its Sunday night fact checking editor a long-weekend break.
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UPDATE - August 28: Thanks to Anthony Caruana for the tip off, but no thanks to Fake Steve Jobs for not giving credit where credit is due! Then again nor does Anthony!
UPDATE - August 28 10:35 AEST: Anthony has corrected his "oversight" while I await FSJ's acknowledgement and update, given it about giving due credit.
By the way, the image I created showing the nefarious Herald-Sun article used
• a cheapie HP all in one scanner,
• then Preview,
• then Keynote 4 for the shadow effect.
The date and page number are actually stitched on to the column, but in reality they were many inches away on the same page. That's how I know it's my picture!
The cut out effect is one I used frequently in my presentations when I'm reading quotes from academic journals. This is the only time I read text on slides - when they're quotes. I find using the graphic of the article's actual text, superimposed on the cutout then shadowed, lifts the quote and gives it greater presence than merely typing in the text. Those who do lots of presentations do notice, and offer very positive feedback for the effect, one that I borrowed from the many news and current affairs programs, such as the Daily Show,with John Stewart, surely the best current affairs TV masquerading as comedy on air currently. |
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