Kerry's speech

I'm watching it now via the Internet, so I can't say how good it was yet. But NBC's news team seemed to like it.

And you gotta love that opening line.

Drudge posts fake photos

This is why the right-wind gossipmonger will never be the real journalist he so deperately wants to be.

His Photoshop retouching may seem a trivial thing, but it shows a couple of pretty big things about the Drudge-packer:

1) He steals other people's work without credit or payment. Yes, this from the same group that lambastes the poor for being lazy and dishonest.

2) He doesn't value truth, and is willing to post false photos as news. This is a big journalistic no-no. Concepts like bias, balance and fairness are subject to interpretation, but posting fake photos is a cut-and-dry issue. If he knowingly posts fake photos over trivial stories, how can we trust his so-called scoops? How many other fake photos has he posted?

3) He's stupid. If you're going to flip a photo and change the color of the traffic light, remember to also change the color of the cross-street light. That way, the photo doesn't show green lights in all directions. Also move around some of the other objects, or change the color of one of the cars.

What a chump.

UPDATE: Apparently he's taken the photo off the site. No correction. No apology.
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