>> Friday, August 19, 2005
The childish leftie twits at BBC Views Online who think it's clever to bugger around with photos as a means of expressing their own petty political prejudices have been busy again.
The photo of Norman Tebbit (see right) on the story Tebbit attacks 'unreformed' Islam has clearly been tampered with - first off they've selected the worst photo they could find of him, then they've slanted it to the left, then they've whacked up the white balance to make the picture look completely overexposed. |  |
Looking through a selection of other BBC Tebbit (hey, that has a ring to it) photos, we can see that there are none anywhere near as bad as the one they've cooked up for this story.
Likewise, if we look at the BBC's selection of pictures for a couple of randomly selected leftie elder-statesmen, Lord Callaghan and Robin Cook, we can see that none of their pictures have been manipulated in such a malicious manner.
To the Beeboids reading this, please do kick the backside of whoever cooked up this Tebbit picture - it's not big and it's not clever, and it clearly shows just how paper thin your claims to impartiality really are. To be fair, I suppose it could just be down to sheer incompetence - of the graphics person, the story compiler and the sub-editor, rather than bias - but that's not saying much for you either.
I'm taking a summer break, so this may be my last post for a little while (unless I get some time to spare before going away), but I'm sure my colleagues will keep a light shining on the BBC in the meantime.
Update: I am informed on good authority that the picture of Norman Tebbit was not digitally manipulated. I am happy to accept that that is the case, however, the selected photo is poorly composed and very badly overexposed. It is therefore unrepresentative of and unfair to Lord Tebbit, and should not have been used. Lord Tebbit was shown on Newsnight on the campaign trail during the recent general election, looking rather hale and hearty. A screengrab from that would have sufficed if no better photo was available in the BBC's archives.
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