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If you haven’t yet heard (though I am not sure how you could have missed it), Iran released pictures of a missile test they just conducted. The image they released was plastered all over newspapers world wide and showed 4 missiles taking flight simultaneously. The picture came from Agence France-Presse who said that they got the picture from Sepah News, they happen to be the media wing (or maybe propaganda wing) of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. There is something a bit menacing about the image of four missiles heading skyward in a successful test… That is until you study the picture a bit more.
It turns out that the missile, 3rd from the left was Photoshopped in. the dust cloud under the missile comes from the right hand side, the missile it self is identical to the one on the left hand side (the NY Times had a little fun with Photoshop themselves highlighting this). Now the question being raised is: Who is responsible for this? Read more »
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I am not a huge fan of Fox News, I feel that, for the most part, it is exploitive and uses scare tactics rather then actual journalism to get its point across. Fortunately I can get my news from about 200 other channels so I am not stuck listening to them blather on pushing their right wing agenda for Rupert Murdoch.
Unfortunately I catch little tidbits from and about Fox News that just get me all riled up. I hesitated to write up this most recent one since as the old saying goes “All news is good news” and folks might turn on Fox News or click on the website based on what I wrote (which is why I am leaving off any links to their website), but then there is the part of me who wants people to know about how ridiculous they actually are.
MediaMatters caught Fox recently in a segment they did on “Fox & Friends,” Fox News’ morning show. The hosts of the show were bad mouthing the New York Times, specifically reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe, claiming that despite all the good press Fox News has been getting recently, the NY Times was out to get them, writing a ‘hit piece’ on the “ominous trend” in Fox News’ ratings. They even went as far as showing Reddicliffe holding a leash of a Photoshopped poodle with the face of Steinberg. Read more »
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Dear Judith,
Rarely, if ever, do I agree with your analysis or point-of-view. However, I think it is more important to consider all view points to an argument rather than to live in an echo chamber. Thus, every Friday, when the NYTimes.com “Opinion Today” e-mail hits my inbox, I always click through to your Domestic Disturbances column. And I read it. And I give it thought. And often times I comment.
Today was no exception, though it was exceptional.
In today’s posting “Pure Tyranny” you have drawn an unholy triangulation between hymen replacement surgery for Muslim women in France, the kidnapping Austrian incestor Josef Fritzl and an evangelical Father-Daughter Purity Ball in Colorado Springs. It was to my surprise, that your harshest criticism was reserved for the latter. Referring to a May 19 New York Times article about these events, you liken the idea of a purity ball to male domination over their daughters and wives. If I may, a quote from your piece:
“But there is nonetheless a kind of horror to their obsession with their daughters’ sexuality. And there is even greater danger to the fact that this particular aspect of the nationwide ‘abstinence movement’ has not been broadly denounced as the form of emotional violence against girls that it indisputably is.”
To which I ask, in all seriousness. Are you out of your mind?
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It almost sounds like a dream meal set-up, The New York Times gave Eric Ripert and his pastry chef no budget and let them loose in a store to buy ingredients to cook a fabulous meal. You know of course there is a catch in there, otherwise would this be worth writing about? (well, maybe, but only if I had been invited to the meal).
So the catch that you were all waiting for was that Ripert was let loose in a $0.99 store. Albeit, it was Jack’s which is a pretty impressive 99-cent store, but still.
Although he was asked to prepare 3 dishes they made 5 total. Though as they only tossed the pigs in a blanket in the oven I am not sure that you can really claim he “made” them. Although Ripert was impressed by $.99 wild salmon, some of the prepared dishes did not live up to his hopes and expectations (see: pigs in a blanket). The dishes ranged from bad, to “a little bit Olive Garden” to successfull. Dishes, like his canned tuna rillettes and his wild salmon over jasmine rice with tomato & coconut sauce were on the success side of things. And as the article says “Who knows? The recipe might even work with fresh fish.”
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By now you may have heard that small explosive went off in front of the Army recruiting center in Time Square during the very-early morning hours. Reading through the New York Times coverage of the event left me with a few questions about who the folks were that they interviewed to get some choice reaction statements to the explosion:
“I felt the building shaking, and then a second after, I heard the explosion,” said Mercy Sepulveda, who was visiting on business from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and was staying on the 10th floor of the hotel. “It sounded like a gas tank exploding. And that was it. Ten minutes later I heard the police…”
Admittedly, I don’t spend much time down in Ft. Lauderdale, I can’t really deal with the humidity, but I do have to ask, do they have a large amount of gas tank explosions down there? Enough that Mercy would be familiar with the sound?
Next up we have Maggie from DC:
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