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USA Today Makes Amends, Publishes Real Condi Pic

After receiving multitudinous complaints over their posting of a retouched picture of Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice that made her appear somewhat “demonic“, USA Today removed the photo from their website and added this note from the editor:

Editor’s note: The photo of Condoleeza Rice that originally accompanied this story was altered in a manner that did not meet USA TODAY’s editorial standards. The photo has been replaced by a properly adjusted copy. Photos published online are routinely cropped for size and adjusted for brightness and sharpness to optimize their appearance. In this case, after sharpening the photo for clarity, the editor brightened a portion of Rice’s face, giving her eyes an unnatural appearance. This resulted in a distortion of the original not in keeping with our editorial standards.

Being no strangers to journalistic integrity and high editorial standards, we here at TNOYF applaud USA Today’s bravery for promptly addressing the situation and making the necessary corrections.

USA Today’s original, unaltered photo of Secretary of State Rice appears below.

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(H/T to Rodney Dill for the photo.)

Thanks to NIF, The Political Teen, Mudville & OTB.

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6 Responses to “USA Today Makes Amends, Publishes Real Condi Pic”

  1. T. Longren on October 27th, 2005 9:24 am

    USA Today Wordplay

    These blatantly photoshopped images coming from various sources in The Media amaze me. They may truly just be mistakes, but there should still be at least some quality control. This immediately reminded me of the Reuters potty break im…

  2. Steve O on October 27th, 2005 10:22 am

    USA Today claims that the photo was brightened for clarity, but the skin tone is actually darker than the untouched photo.

    Even the apology is a lie. Oops, it’s not actually an apology…

  3. NIF on October 27th, 2005 9:29 pm

    Another day in the neighborhood

    Today’s dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny … It’s Stop the ACLU Thursday (and did you hear about the Blogger + HaloScan inline trackbacks?)

  4. NIF on October 27th, 2005 9:33 pm

    Another day in the neighborhood

    Today’s dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny … It’s Stop the ACLU Thursday (and did you hear about the Blogger + HaloScan inline trackbacks?)

  5. Kiki B. on October 28th, 2005 12:10 am

    Okay. This is, like, just gross. With her fashion sense, she should know not to wear a double-breasted jacket with a diaper.

  6. Rodney Dill on October 28th, 2005 6:45 pm

    She looks like she could seriously kick some terrorist butt to me. I’d still vote for her.





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