Subscribe by EmailBritish tabloid Photoshops black guy out but leaves his knee behind
July 24, 2008 by Mark O'Neill |By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
By any standard, the “Sun” newspaper in Britain is a bit of a rag. This is the newspaper that thinks that a topless woman on page 3 is culture. This is the newspaper that thinks that it’s OK to call the Germans a “bunch of racist Nazis” even though the war has been over for 63 years. This is the newspaper that thinks that serious journalism amounts to who’s sleeping with who. If you asked a Sun reporter who Obama was, he’d think it was a trendy new drug and he’d get his needle out.
So I can’t say I’m surprised by their latest screw-up. One of their other faults is that the Sun is prejudiced towards minorities and when this great picture of “daring-do” Prince William became available, the Rag must have decided that the black guy at the back was in the way so they decided in their infinite wisdom to Photoshop him out. But being the knuckleheads that they are, they left his knee in!
The Metro newspaper in Britain has the original photo for comparison purposes and below is the Sun photo which is in the newspaper today. The online version of the Sun story however has the proper photo.
I think the Photoshop guy at the Sun is probably looking for a new job today.
Via Gawker
You Might Also Like:
- How movie trailers are ACTUALLY made
- Who owns the Imperial Stormtroopers’ clothes?
- Are the Swiss about to invent the first time machine?
- Monday morning links serving: The March 31st edition
It’s still a very stupid screw-up indeed. Haha.
I am a trained journalist, worked in newspapers and you’re lecturing me on “journalistic fraud”!
I am merely stating facts - that he is a black person and that he was Photoshopped out. That the Sun newspaper has a history of prejudices towards minorities and that this was probably the reason why they removed him from the photo.
Does this make me a racist? I think not! You won’t find me donning a white hood and burning crosses on peoples lawns. All I am doing is presenting the facts of the story.
I think you’re nitpicking here. You don’t happen to be a reporter for the Sun by any chance?
I see no racism here. The Sun does have a history of this type of thing and I see nothing wrong with Mark pointing it out.
Steve, you are just looking for a fight. Stop. Laugh, enjoy yourself. Dick.
It was kind of amusing. I just felt the need to speak out over the false charge of racism. You can only “cry wolf” so many times before the cries are ignored, and this applies to racism as well.
The Sun may be racist, but not here.
And for the record, I wish I did have a vagina with sand in it. One can only hope.