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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Photoshopped Pic Drawing More Comment

The rather obvious Photoshop job I noted yesterday, moving President Mubarak from the rear to the front of the group when Al-Ahram felt a White House photo needed work, continues to draw comment. THe independent Al-Masry al-Youm also ran both versions, while the BBC says "Egyptian Newspaper Under Fire Over Altered Photo."

I'm not sure Al-Ahram is "under fire", exactly, since they probably don't care, but "makes itself a subject of widespread ridicule" would seem fair.

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