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  • Is this picture real?



    "real", as in, was this photograph really on the cover of Washington Post's 6/31 2006 issue.

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    Nope, pictures aren't real, they represent real things.
    APOSTOLNIK BEANIE BERET BICORNE BIRETTA BOATER BONNET BOWLER CAP CAPOTAIN CHADOR COIF CORONET CROWN DO-RAG FEDORA FEZ GALERO HAIRNET HAT HEADSCARF HELMET HENNIN HIJAB HOOD KABUTO KERCHIEF KOLPIK KUFI MITRE MORTARBOARD PERUKE PICKELHAUBE SKULLCAP SOMBRERO SHTREIMEL STAHLHELM STETSON TIARA TOQUE TOUPEE TRICORN TRILBY TURBAN VISOR WIG YARMULKE ZUCCHETTO

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    • #3
      Why the doubt?
      Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
      "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
      He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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      • #4
        Perhaps this was one of those AP photos that was faked.
        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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        • #5
          i thought those were from this August:

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          • #6
            oh wait, the ones from august '07 are from afp

            hmm

            now that the original question has been resolved, i have two additional questions i'd love to hear though-out answers to:
            (1) how often has this kind of thing been on the past? i mean, i understand that staged photos have been common, but how often has the quality of journalists from so many sources failed so completely that photos as obviously staged as these ones have ended up on all the major (mainstream, "legitimate") newspapers on most (>50%) of the countries in the world?
            (2) why do AP and AFP still have any sort of credibility among local newspapers after these fiascos? why are they still used as middlemen to gather photos?

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            • #7
              Herd mentality and the assumption that others are right probably plays a big part.
              One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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              • #8
                Lying and faking reports like this is endemic to the Arab world.
                Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Oerdin
                  Lying and faking reports like this is endemic to the world.
                  Fixed.
                  There's no game in The Sims. It's not a game. It's like watching a tank of goldfishes and feed them occasionally. - Urban Ranger

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                  • #10
                    "I'm not dead! I feel fine! I feel happy!"
                    I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"

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                    • #11
                      "Bring out your dead!"

                      "I'm not dead yet."

                      "Yes you are"
                      "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by VJ
                        (2) why do AP and AFP still have any sort of credibility among local newspapers after these fiascos? why are they still used as middlemen to gather photos?
                        It's probably the awareness that no news agency is generally immune to such stuff.
                        Blah

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                        • #13
                          Rigor Mortis?
                          I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Oerdin
                            Lying and faking reports like this is endemic to the Arab world.
                            What if its about you and a 48" pizza?



                            Spec.
                            -Never argue with an idiot; He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Zoid
                              Rigor Mortis?
                              QFT. S/He prolly died elsewhere, lying on the side.
                              I'm consitently stupid- Japher
                              I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned

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