Fauxtography 101: Use PhotoShop, Catch Criminals

Catching Criminals with Photoshop?
Interview with Jim Hoerricks, LAPD, On Forensic Photography
by Nathaniel Janis
Stinky Journalism

---

Second in the Fauxtography Series

ALSO at DBKP:
* Fauxtography For Dummies: Forced Perspective Fauxtography
* John McCain on 9/11: Lapel Pin Fauxtography Claim is Faux
* Iranian Fauxtography: Now, THAT’s What I Call Iranian Fauxtography!

---

Over the last few years, a "Fauxtography" epidemic has been steadily infecting the reporting done by many different news outlets. From the infamous Reuters Passion of the Dolls scandal in 2006, to the numerous fake Monster Pig photographs initially verified by the Associated Press and Fox News, it is clear we are living in an age when seeing is no longer believing.

Stinky Journalism's Nathaniel Janis recently had the chance to sit down with Jim Hoerricks--forensic analyst with the Los Angeles Police Department--to discuss ways to identify such photos when they appear, and other issues relating to digital photograph manipulation.

Nathaniel Janis: Could you describe what you do as a forensic video analyst for the Los Angeles Police Department's Scientific Investigation Division?
Jim Hoerricks

Jim Hoerricks: It's a pretty straightforward job description. As far as digital, analog, or any multimedia-type evidence goes, whether it be crime scene, CCTV footage, or audio recordings or surveillance that's done by officers - it comes through our office, and then it gets processed either for comparison or straight out for the media.

If they're looking for just a cell image to put on a flyer, or as part of an Amber Alert, there are a lot of different things to do with the video. After that's taken care of, the audio side needs to be clarified and cleaned up so you can hear what's going on. Finally, we may have to complete certain tasks like identifying a face, license plate, distributing the video to the media or a patrol unit; that sort of thing.

NJ: What would be one of your most common or typical objectives when you're looking at a video from a crime scene? What do you normally have to determine?

JH: We mainly focus on identification of an individual or an object; you know, did subject A do this? Is this subject A? Does the person in the video or the image match the person that we think did it? Or can we get a license plate? Or if we can't see the person's face, is there anything identifiable about the person or the object that we can get out there to the public, whether through the media or crime bulletins internal?

NJ: You've been significantly involved in many projects - including a book and a website - devoted to Adobe's Photoshop program. How did you begin working with the program, and what makes Photoshop and other digital photo applications so valuable and widely used as forensic tools?

Continue reading: Catching Criminals with Photoshop?


by Nathaniel Janis
Source: Catching Criminals with Photoshop?
image: Stinky Journalism

Obama and Coal: Obama Policies Will Bankrupt Coal

Obama on Coal Power:

"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them."






PJ Gladnick has performed a public service by uncovering the audio of an Obama interview with the SF Chronicle from earlier this year.

The transcript of the audio portion of the video below. (Courtesy of NewsBusters: Hidden Audio: Obama Tells SF Chronicle He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry)

Let me sort of describe my overall policy.

What I've said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's out there.

I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being placed, imposed every year.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.

That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches.

The only thing I've said with respect to coal, I haven't been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a (sic) ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.

It's just that it will bankrupt them.

The union bosses at the UMWA have endorsed Obama. But the union bosses will always be the last to go. After the last coal miner is laid off, their union representatives can get jobs as lobbyists.





Former coal miners will not be so lucky as their bosses. It's supposed that not all coal miners will be laid off, though. China will still need coal; some of it will come from the United States.

The Obama campaign has responded with the regular: Obama's quote is taken out of context. It's the same initial response the campaign had to the airing of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's sermons during the Democratic primaries.

Initially, the campaign said the Wright quotes were "taken out of context". When that position no longer became tenable, then Obama threw Rev. Wright under his famous bus.

The reader can listen, read and then decide for himself if the Senator from Illinois has been "taken out of context".

Gladnick's observation about this hidden portion of the SF Chronicle interview?

"Way to cover up for The One, SF Chronicle!"




by Mondo Frazier
image: tammi

McCain Interview: McCain to Raise Obama-Ayers in Third Debate

Obama and His Bill Ayers Connection
McCain Interview: Doesn’t Give a Damn About Bill Ayers
Bob McCarty Writes

---

Mark Reardon, host of The Mark Reardon Show on St. Louis radio station KMOX-AM 1120, interviewed John McCain yesterday and got quite a statement out of the Republican Party presidential nominee regarding Barack Obama and his relationship with unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.

Asked whether he would make the relationship an issue during the third and final presidential debate at Hofstra University Wednesday evening, McCain virtually assured Reardon he would before explaining his reasoning:

"It's not that I give a damn about some old washed-up terrorist and his terrorist wife who in 2001 said they wished they had bombed more. What I care about — and what the American people care about — is whether he is being truthful with the American people."

It's a great interview. To listen to the entire interview, click here and then select "Mark Reardon (10/13/08) John McCain" from the podcast lineup on the right side of The Mark Reardon Show web site.

WANT More Bob McCarty, "The Ultimate Blogging Machine"? Try these recent posts: * Obama ‘Tax Calculator’ Attempts to Deceive Voters * Poll: Would You Trust Obamas With Your Children?

---

ALSO at DBKP:
* Obama, Bill Ayers: CNN Reports Obama-Ayers Connection Went Deeper
* Obama Addresses Relationship with Bill Ayers, former Weather Underground Terrorist, on Philadelphia Radio Talk Show
* Obama Video Shows Pattern Of Socialist Lingo, Socialist Ties
* Barack Obama, Bill Ayers: NY Times Continues to Whitewash Obama-Ayers Connection
* Obama, Bill Ayers, and FactCheck.Org: All Have Ties To Annenberg Foundation
* Obama, Bill Ayers: Mainstream Media Explain Away Obama Ties to Terrorists
* Obama, Bill Ayers: N. Vietnam Awarded Ayers Ring Made from Downed US Plane
* Bill Ayers, Obama: No Mainstream Media Interest in The Obama Bunch
* Obama, Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers: The ‘Tangential’ Bill Ayers
* Obama’s Ties to 1970’s Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers: Disassociation and Little Condemnation

---

by Bob McCarty
image: dbkp file
Source: McCain Doesn't Give a Damn About Bill Ayers

Illegal Immigration Video: Peter Brimelow Interview

Video Interview: Peter Brimelow
Alien Nation author on illegal immigration

---

Blogs4Borders has a three-part interview with Peter Brimelow as its weekly video blogburst. Each part is 9-10 minutes, so you may want to bookmark it to continue at your leisure--if readers are short of time.

Peter Brimelow (born 1947) is a British American financial journalist, author, and founder of VDARE. Brimelow has been the editor of many publications, including Forbes, the Financial Post, and National Review. Outside financial circles, he is best known for his writings on immigration policy and hosting the anti-immigration website VDARE.com. Brimelow founded the Center for American Unity in 1999 and served as its first president, though he is no longer affiliated with the organization. He is a paleoconservative.
Peter Brimelow

From Blogs4Borders:

This week’s edition is a 3-part interview with Peter Brimelow. Jake had the chance to sit down with the Alien Nation author and editor of V-DARE in Chicago last week.

Peter was in town for a debate against open borders fan Jacob Hornberger at the Heartland Institute’s annual fundraising dinner. We’ll have video of that event up later this week.

Part 1





Part 2





Part 3





by Mondo
image: Amazon

MTV: Sarah Palin's ABC Interview Creatively Reported

MTV: Still misleading young Americans


MTV should get an award for the brazenness of its misleading coverage of Governor Palin's interview with Charlie Gibson. Picking up the left wing blogosphere's Palin as "advocate for war with Russia" meme and running with it, they characterized her her view on the Russia/Georgia conflict in a single, simplistic line:

Palin also discussed her views on foreign policy, saying that if Russia invades the neighboring country of Georgia, the United States might have to go to war with them.

It's like MTV isn't even trying. Of course, we know that Palin was talking about Georgia's entry into NATO, and when pressed by Gibson, she properly explained the nature of a military alliance. But I guess MTV assumes "the kids" are too stupid to handle nuances like context and details, especially when they're attempting to characterize the Republican candidate as a warmonger.

If you'll remember, this is not the first time MTV has done this. In '04, MTV was amongst the media outlets pushing the idea that the draft would return if Bush won re-election. MTV apparently doesn't think it's done its job unless it convinces impressionable kids that they're on the verge of being thrown into a meat grinder.

But MTV's biasfest 2008 didn't stop there. No, they went on to parrot lib talking points about the so called "scandalous" prayer Palin gave:

The candidate also took some time to clear up a comment she made at an Alaska church in which she called the war in Iraq "a task from God." "I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words," she said. "But what Abraham Lincoln had said — and that's a repeat in my comments — was let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God's side."

Notice that MTV takes literally 4 words from to make it seem as if Governor Palin considers Iraq to be some sort of crusade in the name of God. Once again, the prayer in full:

Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan."

This prayer is not something that would even require any "clearing up", or further explanation if they would just stop misquoting it. But what are we supposed to expect from MTV, who for years haven't been able to hide their bias. They're just another cog in the liberal broadcast media machine; MSNBC jr if you will.


Screw them, Fuse is better anyway.

by Rizzuto
Conservative Punk
Source: MTV; Still misleading young Americans
image: wired; dbkp

Mariah Carey se desnuda para Interview

... grandes destapes (parte 4)



Nunca me senté a escuchar detenidamente sus canciones, y tampoco lo haría ahora. Sucede que no me interesa el tipo de música que hace. Jamás vi Glitter, cinta que protagonizó en el 2001, la misma que suele ser incluida en las listas de las 50 peores películas de todos los tiempos, así que a estas alturas puedo decir con toda seguridad que jamás me tomaré la molestia de pasar por tan duro y penoso trance. Lo cierto es que cualquier cosa que pueda suceder en torno a Mariah Carey me tiene sin el más mínimo cuidado, a menos, claro está, que la dama en cuestión pose desnuda y nos muestre sus generosas carnes.
Con 38 años a cuestas, Mariah Carey parece vivir por estos días su segunda juventud, y es que ante las constantes críticas y rumores por parte de la prensa acerca de su supuesto sobrepeso, la cantante neoyorquina decidió posar desnuda en una infartante sesión fotográfica para la revista Interview que sin duda sorprenderá a propios y extraños, en lo que se supone será un intento por relanzar su tan desprestigiada carrera. La edición del mencionado magazine saldrá a la venta en Estados Unidos este 28 de agosto e incluirá una entrevista en la que Mariah contará acerca de su ruptura con el cantante mexicano Luis Miguel, y aprovechará, además, para promocionar su próximo disco y dar a conocer sus siguientes proyectos como actriz de carácter. De acuerdo a MTV, Mariah Carey está terminando la grabación de los diez temas que incluirá su nueva producción discográfica, la cual viene precedida del exitoso Emmancipation of Mimi, album que resultó ser el disco más vendido del 2005 y con el que recuperó el favor de la crítica y de la industria musical tras una seguidilla de sonados fracasos. Según ha confesado la propia cantante en recientes declaraciones: "Estoy en una dieta en la que, como ya saben, significa que no puedo comer nada rico, y mi entrenador me ha hecho trabajar duro aun cuando vengo regresando de estar ochenta horas en el estudio de grabación...". Bla, bla, bla, whatever, a nadie le importa eso. Lo único que queremos es verla sin ropa. Sólo espero que no se trate de otro engaña-muchachos más, y me refiero a la vez en que apareció adornando aquella muy publicitada portada de Playboy para que al final ni siquiera terminara enseñando las piernas. Una estafa total, tanto o más que este lamentable y prescindible post.


Mariah Carey desnuda su alma y también su cuerpo
en un intento por relanzar su carrera profesional

Mariah Carey en Playboy
fotos mariah+carey desnuda naked nude interview mariah+carey+desnuda luis+miguel