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Photoshop disaster: Hillary Clinton out of paper's war room photo

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Published: May 09, 2011 9:37 a.m.
Last modified: May 09, 2011 10:24 a.m.
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Let's say you run a newspaper that, for religious reasons, refuses to show images of women. What do you do then, when the most iconic photo of the year contains not one but two women? Easy: Photoshop them out!

Brooklyn-based Der Zeitung, a religious newspaper for the borough's ultra-Othodox Jewish community, has a longstanding policy of not printing photographs of women, saying they are "sexually suggestive." When tasked then with printing the famous "Situation Room" photograph, which features Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Director for Counterterrorism Audrey Tomason, the paper simply edited the photo to remove both women, thus sparing the Orthodox community the danger of being seduced by Clinton's coquettish pose and Tomason's coy glances.

As the blog FailedMessiah notes, this violates the White House's disclaimer that the image "not be manipulated in any way." Jezebel reports that the paper will issue a retraction soon.



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