The criticism of the air-brushing of the female participants in the Bin Laden security meeting has focused on the issue from a feminist perspective. Unfortunately, this ideological argument devolves into a question of values as one side says it’s “protecting the modesty of women,” whereas the other says, “the presence of a woman, any woman…was too much for the editors.”
Don’t even the most religious of people believe, however, that truth is what it is? In other words, Hillary Clinton and Audrey Tomason were in the room, regardless of what a newspaper does to the photograph. Publishing the modified photo, therefore, promulgates a lie.
If the editors don’t want to show the room as it was, then don’t use the photograph, but how can they as journalists manufacture a scene that never happened?
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The female focus has been because what the paper did, it did to women. Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld posted comments about the religious laws the paper violated. http://www.frumforum.com/airbrushing-hillary-its-a-sin. Nothing about women in his post.
You’re 100% right. They should not have used the photo at all.
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