{"id":263,"date":"2006-09-08T07:05:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T14:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/09\/08\/more-lies-from-cbs\/"},"modified":"2009-11-14T10:19:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T17:19:43","slug":"more-lies-from-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/09\/08\/more-lies-from-cbs\/","title":{"rendered":"More lies from CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Protect your property by all means, but lie about it?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Hot on the heels of my piece on <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/09\/02\/digital-tampering\/ target=_blank>digital tampering<\/a> by the news media comes the not-so startling revelation that the people at CBS are at it again.<\/p>\n<p>This time, the purpose of their lies is innocent if no less damnable, namely protecting the image of their $15mm a year teleprompter reader, one Katie Couric.<\/p>\n<p>A picture being worth a thousand words or 15 lbs of fat, I will let the following photograph do my talking for me.  Guess which one CBS used in promoting Ms. Couric?<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/CouricFat.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In the same way that they tried suing gun makers for murders committed with their weapons, doubtless that scum bag class known as tort lawyers will be suing Adobe\/Photoshop any day now for making it possible to trim off all that fat.  The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable, as Wilde once said of fox hunting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protect your property by all means, but lie about it? Hot on the heels of my piece on digital tampering by the news media comes the not-so startling revelation that the people at CBS are at it again. This time, the purpose of their lies is innocent if no less damnable, namely protecting the image &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/09\/08\/more-lies-from-cbs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More lies from CBS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hall-of-shame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4021,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/4021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}