A story of two cons...

As you might have noticed, right-wing sites have lately gotten very exercised about news organizations retouching their photos.  Apparently darkening the smoke that billows over Beirut is an instance of the mainstream media's perfidy, you see.  It shows their liberal bias.

So you can imagine how excited Glenn Reynolds might get if he discovered that a CBS magazine retouched an image to make Katie Couric look slimmer.

But there's a problem here... look at the supposed original photo on the left.  Compare it to this photo, which is the real original.  Yes, the CBS magazine doctored the photo to make Couric seem skinnier, but the site Reynolds links to has doctored it too!  Compare the CBS logo behind Couric.  The center should be round, not oblong.

Isn't ironic that those most indignant about photoshop alterations should stoop to it in order to more clearly expose it?

Alas.  News organizations try to make their personalities look better and right-wing sites lie.  My innocence is completely gone.