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NY Times Crops Bush Out Of Selma Picture, Highlights Ferguson

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NY Times Crops Bush Out Of Selma Picture, Highlights Ferguson | The Daily Caller

On the 50th anniversary of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, The New York Times chose a front page picture of President Barack Obama, his family, and civil rights leaders who were there at the time. Missing from the photo, though only a few people down to the right, were former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura. The Times also focused quite a bit of their story on the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, even though the local and federal investigations into that event found race had zero role in it and they refused to bring charges.

For their front page, the Times curiously chose a picture that did not show the entire front line of marchers, choosing instead to leave the Bushes on the cutting room floor....


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seems pretty disrespectful to me. I have no love to be lost over George W. Bush, but since he doesn't really do politics anymore, his presence there was noteworthy just in that regard.
 
Declan said:
NY Times Crops Bush Out Of Selma Picture, Highlights Ferguson | The Daily Caller

On the 50th anniversary of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, The New York Times chose a front page picture of President Barack Obama, his family, and civil rights leaders who were there at the time. Missing from the photo, though only a few people down to the right, were former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura. The Times also focused quite a bit of their story on the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, even though the local and federal investigations into that event found race had zero role in it and they refused to bring charges.

For their front page, the Times curiously chose a picture that did not show the entire front line of marchers, choosing instead to leave the Bushes on the cutting room floor....


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seems pretty disrespectful to me. I have no love to be lost over George W. Bush, but since he doesn't really do politics anymore, his presence there was noteworthy just in that regard.
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I have always considered the New York Times of less value then toilet paper.
 
Declan said:
NY Times Crops Bush Out Of Selma Picture, Highlights Ferguson | The Daily Caller

On the 50th anniversary of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, The New York Times chose a front page picture of President Barack Obama, his family, and civil rights leaders who were there at the time. Missing from the photo, though only a few people down to the right, were former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura. The Times also focused quite a bit of their story on the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, even though the local and federal investigations into that event found race had zero role in it and they refused to bring charges.

For their front page, the Times curiously chose a picture that did not show the entire front line of marchers, choosing instead to leave the Bushes on the cutting room floor....


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seems pretty disrespectful to me. I have no love to be lost over George W. Bush, but since he doesn't really do politics anymore, his presence there was noteworthy just in that regard.
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Sad that a once great newspaper is now a tabloid without the glossy pictures.
 
ObamacareFail said:
I have always considered the New York Times of less value then toilet paper.
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They are still pretty good when it comes to arts and entertainment stuff but otherwise pretty worthless.
 
I don't have a problem with them talking about Ferguson, but cutting President Bush out does reek of bias.
 
Declan said:
NY Times Crops Bush Out Of Selma Picture, Highlights Ferguson | The Daily Caller

On the 50th anniversary of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, The New York Times chose a front page picture of President Barack Obama, his family, and civil rights leaders who were there at the time. Missing from the photo, though only a few people down to the right, were former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura. The Times also focused quite a bit of their story on the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, even though the local and federal investigations into that event found race had zero role in it and they refused to bring charges.

For their front page, the Times curiously chose a picture that did not show the entire front line of marchers, choosing instead to leave the Bushes on the cutting room floor....


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seems pretty disrespectful to me. I have no love to be lost over George W. Bush, but since he doesn't really do politics anymore, his presence there was noteworthy just in that regard.
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Hey, at least President Bush and his family marching side by side with Obama was mentioned prominently in the Times story...

Well, ummm... maybe they didn't mention that his family was there... or that they were marching side by side with Obama, but at least he still got that prominent mention... If that is, you consider being mentioned in the 11th paragraph of the story prominent.
 
Grim17 said:
Hey, at least President Bush and his family marching side by side with Obama was mentioned prominently in the Times story...

Well, ummm... maybe they didn't mention that his family was there... or that they were marching side by side with Obama, but at least he still got that prominent mention... If that is, you consider being mentioned in the 11th paragraph of the story prominent.
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What did the 11th paragraph blame Bush for this time?
 
Grim17 said:
Hey, at least President Bush and his family marching side by side with Obama was mentioned prominently in the Times story...

Well, ummm... maybe they didn't mention that his family was there... or that they were marching side by side with Obama, but at least he still got that prominent mention... If that is, you consider being mentioned in the 11th paragraph of the story prominent.
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I don't believe the picture was cropped at all, you can see Laura Bush off to the right and President Bush was nowhere in sight. Perhaps he was further right and photographer who obviously was trying to frame the bridge missed him.
By the way Laura and President were mentioned in the caption below the picture.
 
pbrauer said:
I don't believe the picture was cropped at all, you can see Laura Bush off to the right and President Bush was nowhere in sight. Perhaps he was further right and photographer who obviously was trying to frame the bridge missed him.
By the way Laura and President were mentioned in the caption below the picture.
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Where is she again Pete?

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I would like to present an excerpt of the speech Obama gave in 2009 to commemorate this very day.

He tells a heart warming story of how what happened in Selma in 1965, and how it gave his mother and father the hope and courage they needed to bring a child into the world and start a family... Soon after that he says, the future president of the United States, Barack Obama Jr was born into this world.

Nothing brings a tear to my eye faster than a story about how the events in Selma in 1965, inspired the parents of our president to bring him into the world 4 years before what happened in Selma ever took place.

Skip to the 1:33 mark:

 
ObamacareFail said:
I have always considered the New York Times of less value then toilet paper.
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lizzie said:
And are we surprised? Well, no, we aren't.
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BrewerBob said:
I don't have a problem with them talking about Ferguson, but cutting President Bush out does reek of bias.
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Declan said:
They are still pretty good when it comes to arts and entertainment stuff but otherwise pretty worthless.
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Declan said:
What did the 11th paragraph blame Bush for this time?
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I don't believe the picture was cropped. Everyone in the picture was as it should be was African-American.
 
pbrauer said:
I don't believe the picture was cropped. Everyone in the picture was as it should be was African-American.
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That excuse would be fine, if the purpose of doing that was stated within the NY Times or if a black magazine or paper had done it, such as Ebony, Essence or XXl. But this is a newspaper. What they did is not excusable. They purposely made it look as though Bush had no right to be there or marching in the front. It was as if they were upset he even decided to attend.
 
chad1389 said:
That excuse would be fine, if the purpose of doing that was stated within the NY Times or if a black magazine or paper had done it, such as Ebony, Essence or XXl. But this is a newspaper. What they did is not excusable. They purposely made it look as though Bush had no right to be there or marching in the front. It was as if they were upset he even decided to attend.
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Sorry chad, they didn't arrange the people in the picture. :roll:
 
pbrauer said:
Sorry chad, they didn't arrange the people in the picture. :roll:
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Cropping them out is just as bad. He's a former president. It was kind of racist of the NY Times to crop him out if you think about it. In case you forget, some whites also marched at Selma in '65.
 
chad1389 said:
Cropping them out is just as bad. He's a former president. It was kind of racist of the NY Times to crop him out if you think about it. In case you forget, some whites also marched at Selma in '65.
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There is no evidence the picture was cropped.
 
pbrauer said:
I don't believe the picture was cropped. Everyone in the picture was as it should be was African-American.
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Why would they want that when the celebration should be about unity among all people? It's just more segregation.

They don't want the Bush family being identified with Black people when "Republican = Racist" has been the Democrats most successful campaign strategy..
 
Grant said:
Why would they want that when the celebration should be about unity among all people? It's just more segregation.

They don't want the Bush family being identified with Black people when "Republican = Racist" has been the Democrats most successful campaign strategy..
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Stop acting like a victim.
 
Grant said:
NY Times Crops George and Laura Bush Out of Front-Page Photo of Selma Anniversary
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Newsbusters has no clue what cropping means

Cropping refers to the removal of the outer parts of an image to improve framing, accentuate subject matter or change aspect ratio. Depending on the application, this may be performed on a physical photograph, artwork or film footage, or achieved digitally using image editing software.
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President and Laura Bush were next to the first family at some point, they couldn't have been cropped out of this picture.
 
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