Bias-Exposing Pictures: The Enemy Within

This isn’t about business per se, but it’s damned important.

You must see the full sequence of pictures to believe it, and for a full explanation. But here’s the Cliff’s Notes version:

The person pictured at the left is a tiny part of the contingent pictured on the right being led by an obvious Communist sympathizer. The orange boxes were added by me so you will better appreciate what the San Francisco Chronicle left out of their report on the “peace” marches last weekend when you go to zombietime’s post.

The enemy within and their willing media accomplices can no longer be certain that they can hide the truth; they can only hope that watchful bloggers and others don’t catch them trying to hide it.

This time they were caught “red-handed.” (HTs to Patterico and numerous other blogs).

This makes the American people’s perceptions of liberal bias of the mainstream media that much easier to believe.

Zombie’s final three paragraphs describe the media distortion template, and why it’s no longer guaranteed to work:

But this simple analysis reveals the very subtle but insidious type of bias that occurs in the media all the time. The Chronicle did not print an inaccuracy, nor did it doctor a photograph to misrepresent the facts. Instead, the Chronicle committed the sin of omission: it told you the truth, but it didn’t tell you the whole truth.

Because the whole truth — that the girl was part of a group of naive teenagers recruited by Communist activists to wear terrorist-style bandannas and carry Palestinian flags and obscene placards — is disturbing, and doesn’t conform to the narrative that the Chronicle is trying to promote. By presenting the photo out of context, and only showing the one image that suits its purpose, the Chronicle is intentionally manipulating the reader’s impression of the rally, and the rally’s intent.

Such tactics — in the no-man’s-land between ethical and unethical — are commonplace in the media, and have been for decades. It is only now, with the advent of citizen journalism, that we can at last begin to see the whole story and realize that the public has been manipulated like this all along.

They got away with this time and time again during the Vietnam War. Memo to mainstream media guys and gals: We won’t be fooled again.

And, as to business, who is naive enough to think that “journalists” who will commit deliberate distortions of the type noted here will hesitate for even a moment to put “evil capitalists” in a bad light when given the smallest opportunity?