- Pig in Lipstick
Well, as Gawker and others reported on Monday, it looks like Jill Greenberg is in a bit of a sticky situation with The Atlantic after she posted some rather unflattering retouched images of the outtake photos she did for McCain’s cover shoot.
Personally, I didn’t think the actual cover was all that flattering in the first place, and it’s no surprise that apparently Greenberg wanted it that way. I think that The Atlantic‘s backpedaling is nothing more than a fantastic example of cowardly journalism. Yes, you hired a photographer to do a cover for your magazine. But no, you definitely don’t have the right to defame said photographer for manipulating her own images– especially if a few minutes of Googling would have been enough to vet out any potential pesky liberals.
Of course right-wing hatemonger and all-around nasty human being Michelle Malkin weighs in on the issue, and this might be the one time that I will ever, EVER even remotely agree with anything she says…and even in this case, it’s just the line where she says that The Atlantic should have, you know, actually vetted their vice presidential candidate cover photographer.
Not that I think all this “outrage” is in any way justified. Journalism and photography…they’re all about taking risks. If The Atlantic didn’t want to take a chance with a potentially “controversial” photographer, they should have done their job.
