Everything they say in the newspaper may indeed be true; but it’s the truths they don’t tell you that are important.

Zombie has a photo essasy on a rally in San Francisco that was attended by - not just the usual zoo - but the mayor and city council (sorry, that's part of the usual zoo) called 1 Billion Rising. 

Via Zombie:

This is the sneaky side of media bias: deciding what to emphasize, and what to ignore. Everything they say in the newspaper may indeed be true; but it’s the truths they don’t tell you that are important

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A little lesson in photo editing:

From the stage, at a certain angle, one could take a photo encompassing the entire crowd, making it look pretty big.

Even from the front of the crowd looking toward the back, it can be made to appear like a sea of people (and note all the media on the platform to the left).

But walk to the back of Civic Center Plaza, and take a picture from a distance, and my oh my, it certainly seems like a small event!
See how deceptive photos can be, even when they’re showing “reality”? Editors can chose which reality they want to show.
So, how many people were there? I’m terrible at crowd estimates, so I couldn’t really say, but if forced to guess, I’d venture two thousand or so.
That may seem like a lot, but it felt tiny compared to the 50,000 protesters who had congregated at this exact spot just couple weeks ago at the Walk for Life rally.
 

 Trust me on this: If the Tea Party had stood in a circle and made a little black boy dance for them, it would have been The Racist Event of the Century. But here — it’s perfectly OK. Move along, nothing to see.

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