More Media Bias
[Guest post by DRJ]
This time from Jill Greenberg, a Beverly Hills photographer chosen by The Atlantic Monthly to photograph John McCain. Would it surprise you to learn the photographer is biased against McCain and let that bias influence her photos of him?
I didn’t think so.
NOTE: Even if you don’t normally read links, please click the link above and read the entire post including the updates. Fortunately it includes condemnation of Greenburg’s actions (but not her cover photo) from the editor of The Atlantic.
– DRJ
I await a similar statement from ABC corporate regarding the absolute hatchet job on Palin in the Gibson interview.
Btw, DRJ, do you still have a benign view of Gibson’s behavior during that interview?
Comment by Ed — 9/14/2008 @ 4:31 pm
It’s worse than that, actually.
One of Greenberg’s best-known exhibitions involved toddlers, stripping them of their clothes and then provoking them to various states of emotional distress, anger, rage etc. — so that she can then take photos of them this way to dramatize her feelings about Bush’s re-election.
Here’s what it looks like.
Comment by Karl — 9/14/2008 @ 4:31 pm
Thanks. Thanks a bunch.
Comment by vanderleun — 9/14/2008 @ 4:32 pm
Yet another example of the lack of professionalism displayed by Obama cultists.
Comment by SPQR — 9/14/2008 @ 4:39 pm
Saw this story over at littlegreenfootballs with links to nasty pictures of Mccain. One has him photoshopped with vampire looking mouth, licking his bloody lips and encaptioned, “I Am A Bloodthirsty Warmonger”. Another has his eyes closed wearing lipstick and is titled “It was really fun to cheat on my car-injury-disabled first wife”. Liberals are such sophisticated people, unlike McCain’s clueless people, according to Greenberg. I thought the Clinton -enablers were scum of the earth, but the obamabots are at an even lower level of hell.
[Max - those photos are also at the link. -- DRJ]
Comment by madmax333 — 9/14/2008 @ 4:41 pm
Ed,
I’m not sure why you categorize my reaction as benign since I’ve had 3 posts that touch on it and none were complimentary of Gibson, including this post the night of the first interview where I linked Tom Maguire’s criticism of Gibson’s performance. However, since I’m not surprised by Gibson’s behavior, it’s probably fair to describe my feelings as ambivalent.
Comment by DRJ — 9/14/2008 @ 4:45 pm
Maybe we can get Annie “the fact that I’m a lesbian drug-addict had nothing to do with those provocative photos I took of Miley Cyrus after her father left the room” Leibovitz to photograph Obama’s family.
Comment by Icy Truth — 9/14/2008 @ 4:53 pm
Among photographers Greenberg already has bespattered ethical reputation. She caused a controversy by tormenting toddlers until they started crying and then photographing them. She then used these photographs on her website as exemplars of how unhappy these kids were at living in the same country as President Bush.
PopPhoto
So again you have to wonder why McCain’s people ever consented to allow her to be the photographer in the first place. Can’t these people use Google?
BK
Comment by Agesilaus — 9/14/2008 @ 4:56 pm
Here’s a great video taking the Lion King and portraying the media’s attack on Palin. It’s in German, but there are subscripts in English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWP5ljQV79s
Comment by J. Raymond Wright — 9/14/2008 @ 5:03 pm
I posted links on the wrong thread, but wonder if Cindy McCain is aware that one of Greenberg’s clients is Anheuser-Busch. C. McCain heads Hensley and Co. which is one of largest Anheuser-Busch distributors in this country.
Comment by madmax333 — 9/14/2008 @ 5:09 pm
Karl,
Thanks for the Greenberg link. I was struck by photo 11 from this link with the following caption:
Wanna bet Greenberg opposes waterboarding?
Comment by DRJ — 9/14/2008 @ 5:09 pm
Max,
I bet McCain’s son, the Hensley CEO, is aware now.
Comment by DRJ — 9/14/2008 @ 5:10 pm
DRJ asks:
“Wanna bet Greenberg opposes waterboarding?”
Depends on who is doing it, I’ll bet.
Comment by Karl — 9/14/2008 @ 5:15 pm
Yeah, we posted on her previous crying toddler thing before, here.
Comment by Patterico — 9/14/2008 @ 5:27 pm
Democrats - Proud Baby Torturers.
Comment by Perfect Sense — 9/14/2008 @ 5:38 pm
The reason, oh fairest of the fair, DRJ, is that I am a doofus. I most humbly apologize.
I attributed, in my mind, to you this quote:
These words were Pat’s, not yours.
Comment by Ed — 9/14/2008 @ 5:42 pm
Maybe she’s angling for a war assignment with the AP; I hear she’s partial to blue - helmeted relief workers.
Comment by Dmac — 9/14/2008 @ 5:50 pm
To be fair to Atlantic, they used a photo from the earlier portion of the shoot that was not intentionally distorted. From their comments on the subject, it’s safe to say they won’t be caught dead using Greenberg again.
Comment by Kevin Murphy — 9/14/2008 @ 5:54 pm
To be fair to common sense, Greenberg’s lefty derangement is known worldwide, The Atlantic continues to employ the equally deranged Andrew Sullivan as its marquee writer, and the owner’s wife is a big Obama donor.
Sorry? Sorry they got caught is more like it.
Comment by Karl — 9/14/2008 @ 6:08 pm
Ed,
I’m never going to complain that someone thinks I’m benign. I am on a lot of subjects.
Comment by DRJ — 9/14/2008 @ 6:15 pm
Well, as much as I deplore her methods, I must say, that exhibit is a pretty darned accurate representation of libs reaction tp W’s re-election. Didn’t know they had this level of self-consciousness!
Comment by Dan S — 9/14/2008 @ 6:18 pm
Betcha they can and did…
Why one EARTH would they try and STOP that? Exactly HOW stupid does it make her and her side look?
This is better than any ad. It all is. God bless the Dems, they are going to win this whole thing for us…
Comment by Scott Jacobs — 9/14/2008 @ 6:27 pm
Given #19’s comment, how stupid was it for McCain to even be in the same room with the woman? Doesn’t McCain realize the MSM is going to do everything possible - so-called journalistic ethics aside - to see Obama win?
Comment by stevesturm — 9/14/2008 @ 6:27 pm
Maybe they realized that most sane people will see this and only like McCain more.
Comment by Jim Treacher — 9/14/2008 @ 6:33 pm
I bet the forthcoming market meltdown will help McCain. Voters will see that there is media bias against investment banks filing bankruptcy, just like it there’s media bias against McCain.
More good news for the GOP: Now it doesn’t matter if Sarah Palin doesn’t know what Lehman Brothers is, because it won’t exist in a few hours.
Comment by D. Aristophanes — 9/14/2008 @ 6:44 pm
Aristophanes, were you trying to make a point? Because you failed.
Comment by SPQR — 9/14/2008 @ 6:48 pm
What Greenberg did was worse than just being biased. Her behavior was brazenly unethical and unprofessional. I don’t have the words to convey my disgust.
Comment by Bradley J. Fikes — 9/14/2008 @ 7:00 pm
This isn’t the first time that someone in an industry that services Hollywood– someone behind the camera, not in front of it– has gone completely overboard in an attempt to ingratiate themselves to the establishment. Think about it– you’re Jill Greenberg: plain, ordinary, untalented. You carve out a name for yourself not through photography, but through photographic manipulation. As you rub elbows with the glitterati, you determine that the only way to get true acceptance, given your real mediocrity, is through shock and awe.
Greenberg’s willingness to breathlessly admit to all of her deeds reveals her as nothing more than a pathetic sycophant.
Comment by RH Potfry — 9/14/2008 @ 7:02 pm
Bradley,
I’m sure Greenberg believes her actions were ethical because the greater good justifies any breach in professional standards. It also explains why people who value rules and standards are often conservative.
Comment by DRJ — 9/14/2008 @ 7:03 pm
Love the blaming the victim done by Greenberg: “They were irresponsible to hire me” (i.e. they knew my views and couldn’t possibly expect me to be professional, for Pete’s sake!).
And about those crying children: Greenberg and people like her hate McCain and Palin with a white-hot hate for, among other things, reminding them that killing unborn children is wrong.
Greenberg, being a “hard core Democrat,” supports and promotes the violent, painful, horrific deaths of unborn children in order to protect the lifestyles of herself and her friends. That she’d torture a few born children to get a good photo for some political point? Small potatoes, and completely unsurprising.
Comment by no one you know — 9/14/2008 @ 7:05 pm
And incidents like this are supposed to convince the rest of us that government forcing wedding photographers to shoot ceremonies that aren’t weddings and that they’d rather have nothing to do with is a good idea?
Comment by Soronel Haetir — 9/14/2008 @ 7:15 pm
Sorry, SPQR, my bad. The potential for a massive market meltdown is easily trumped by henhouse gossip about a glossy mag photo shoot.
Comment by D. Aristophanes — 9/14/2008 @ 7:17 pm
Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZJC3678Bt0
Comment by nancy white — 9/14/2008 @ 7:21 pm
That mean nasty McCain!
If we vote for Bambi, there will never be tears.
I love this country.
Plus, McCain can’t type e-mails. More proof he’s not fit to be Pres’dent.
Comment by steve miller — 9/14/2008 @ 7:23 pm
Hey, nancy white — watch this: ..!.. ..!..
Comment by Icy Truth — 9/14/2008 @ 7:43 pm
oh my god…
Comment by FLBuckeye — 9/14/2008 @ 7:59 pm
No . . . Zod.
Comment by Icy Truth — 9/14/2008 @ 8:07 pm
It works here
Comment by Neo — 9/14/2008 @ 8:24 pm
The Dems wrap themselves around children just as they accuse conservatives of wrapping themselves around the flag.
This woman is a sick puppy./
Comment by Alta Bob — 9/14/2008 @ 8:27 pm
Too much time in the darkroom.
Comment by Ropelight — 9/14/2008 @ 8:45 pm
“One of Greenberg’s best-known exhibitions involved toddlers, stripping them of their clothes and then provoking them to various states of emotional distress, anger, rage etc. — so that she can then take photos of them this way to dramatize her feelings about Bush’s re-election.”
Thanks for the link. Those images were fantastic.
Comment by imdw — 9/14/2008 @ 8:59 pm
Some interesting background from Sweetness & Light on Cintra Wilson, that fun loving, tolerant Obama supporter who wrote a piece on Palin for Salon last week that was posted here for discussion:
“Some inspiring details from the life of ‘feminist’ Cintra Wilson, from the archives of the San Francisco Chronicle:
Color her Cintra
Jennie Yabroff, Special to The Chronicle
Sunday, September 19, 2004
(09-19) 04:00 PDT New York — Liza Normal, the aspiring pop star protagonist of “Colors Insulting to Nature,” Cintra Wilson’s new novel, supports herself penning cult fiction about a dominatrix heroine named Val de Minus. The joke of the book is that Liza’s writing, which she considers “time consuming, libido-warping” and “pathetic,” is what wins her (or at least her alter ego, Val) the fame she craves…
After dropping out of high school, Wilson went to San Francisco State, where she supported herself writing, and occasionally recording, scripts for 976 phone sex services, an experience she files in the “lame and sleazy” drawer. …
In 1996, Wilson moved from San Francisco to New York. Shortly after her move her ex-boyfriend, Bay Area musician Kevin Gilbert, was found dead in his apartment of autoerotic asphyxiation. The little-known phenomenon occurs when a person accidentally suffocates while cutting off his own air supply while masturbating, and is often confused with suicide. “AEA,” as Wilson, who has done extensive research, calls it, makes an appearance in “Colors” as well, the unfortunate fate of a sadomasochistic gay dwarf Liza befriends.
Gilbert was not the first person Wilson lost to AEA — her best friend’s boyfriend in high school, also a musician, died of it as well. “Two people in my life have died of AEA, and nobody knows about it,” she says. “So I was trying to raise awareness about that. I was hoping people would ask questions about it. It’s been a big thing in my life.” …
A life crammed with… incident.”
Somehow none of the above surprised me.
Comment by daleyrocks — 9/14/2008 @ 9:03 pm
I dunno. Low-angle shots to make the subject look like a Neanderthal is a time-honored photographer’s trick. But on the actual published cover, McCain just looks more like the tough guy he is. I’m also betting that some Power Glutes, somewhere … ok, ok, I won’t go there.
Comment by nk — 9/14/2008 @ 9:08 pm
“massive market meltdown.” Right at this moment S&P500 futures predicting a 3.5% decline, moderated a little bit in the last hour. Aussie markets are open, down about 2.6%. Knock on wood, but this isn’t a -massive- meltdown yet, despite how much the SadlyNo Marxists desire it. Sep-Oct-Nov are typically volatile. I’ll be buying equity fund shares this week; I like em when they’re cheap.
Comment by gp — 9/14/2008 @ 9:42 pm
No Problem here. The picture actually helps McCain look like a tough guy … the kind Putin can be afraid of.
Ace of Spades HQ has it already figured out and photoshopped the photo in what is hopefully the first of a series of pro-McCain posters http://minx.cc/?post=273406
Comment by Bill Lever — 9/14/2008 @ 11:17 pm
This incident of self-indulgence will probably hurt Greenburg.
Too bad no one cared about her baby-pinching enough to blacklist her.
And Karl @#19 makes the most rational appraisal of the Atlantic’s collusion.
Comment by SarahW — 9/15/2008 @ 12:38 am
More of this liberal crap from the ATLANTIC MOTHEATEN and other left-wing liberal rags
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