\nREAD THE BLACK PATCH UNDER THE US FLAG Now I realize this is a political statement, but it’s also an altered photograph. I received this e-mail yesterday… READ THE BLACK PATCH UNDER THE US FLAG This SHOULD be on the front cover of Time, Newsweek, etc. But it won’t. Let’s you and I “put it there” by forwarding this all around the world (so to speak)! Now I realize this is a political statement, but it’s also … Continue reading Shouldering the burden<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-ak","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThis SHOULD be on the front cover of Time, Newsweek, etc.
\nBut it won’t.
\nLet’s you and I “put it there” by forwarding this all around the world (so to speak)!
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\nTo assume that it’s an actual photograph and to send it as one seems like bad reporting to me. But maybe that’s just me.
\nHere’s the original photo:
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\nIt’s from a NATO site.
\nI sent some info from Snopes.com on the photo and e-mail to the sender of the e-mail forward.
\nI mentioned that neither magazine would print the photo because it’s not an actual photograph. It’s been altered.
\nThe sender responded, “The mass media doesn’t have the courage to report the truth.”
\nDoes publishing a FALSE photo suddenly give you the TRUTH?
\nDoes misrepresting the truth make it true?
\nIf you want to make a statment, fine. Use a politcal cartoon, or advertise the photo as a digitally altered photo and not an actual photo.
\nWhy can’t you just print the facts and let the truth be the truth?
\nMaybe I’m over analyzing this, or over simplified this, I don’t know.
\nWhat do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"