What amazes me is that there are people who actually spot these things. -dan c. At 12:28 AM 30-10-04 +0100, Bob Talbot wrote: > >http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~aaron/images/screenshots/whatever-med.jpg > >OK > >This story only came to light this side of the pond in HIGNFY - a >topical (comedy) news quiz. > >What's amazing is not that it happened, but that the lower echelons of >the candidate's press dept didn't seem to have learned anything from >the bad press a similar exposure [BBC & Evening Standard] brought >something over a year ago >http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/04/63011.html > >I'm certain no-one high up sanctioned this, that's really not the >point. What is telling, to me, is that such fakery has become so >unremarkable, so commonplace, that the perpetrators probably can't >see they were doing anything wrong. Fake really has replaced fact - >the new reality. > >C'mon guys, if you have to feed us fake images at least put some work >into them - make them hard to spot ;o) > >B > >
