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StinkyJournalism Media Picks
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Doctoring Diversity Photo is Fun in Toronto
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| by Rhonda Roland Shearer, StinkyJournalism.org |
July 15, 2009 06:23 am EST
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| Toronto's summer "Fun Guide" cover uses a stock photo of a happy family, see top image. However, the bottom image shows they replaced one smiling family member with an African Canadian in the effort to fulfill a recent mandated policy to represent Toronto's "diversity." |
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Canada's National Post reports that the city of Toronto's summer "Fun Guide" cover was doctored to create an "ethnically diverse family." The image on top shows "the family" before the digital alterations, below which is the instantly more inclusive family after the photo surgery.
The Post reports that John Gosgnach, a spokesperson for the agency that published the booklet, said an "African-Canadian" person's head "was superimposed...Go to full story
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Fauxlympics
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| by gregb1967 |
August 15, 2008
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| FAKE DIVERSITY... It's not a small world after all? It's alleged that all "the 56 children who carried out the Chinese flag in a moment meant to showcase national harmony were all from the Han majority" ? » more |
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Gregb1977 points out 4 instances of fakery and coins a new term-- the "fauxlympics." First, it's the fake fireworks. Second, the lip syching child star.
Quoting Yahoo News: he writes, "As if that weren't enough, there's [the third fakery]... 'Just nine months before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government's news agency, Xinhua, reported that gymnast He Kexin was 13, which would have made her ineligible to be on the team that won a gold medal this... Go to full story
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Viewbook Diversity vs. Real Diversity
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| by Scott Jaschik ,insidehighered.com |
July 22, 2008
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"In September of 2000, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Idaho were both embarrassed when they were forced to admit that they had doctored promotional photographs to make their campuses look diverse. In both cases, non-white faces were added to real student photographs of all-white groups...The research team counted the racially identifiable student photographs and also gathered data on the actual make-up of the student bodies. The findings: Black... Go to full story
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