During a segment in which Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade labeled New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and editor Steven Reddicliffe “attack dogs,” Fox News featured photos of Steinberg and Reddicliffe that appeared to have been digitally altered — the journalists’ teeth had been yellowed, their facial features exaggerated, and portions of Reddicliffe’s hair moved further back on his head.
– Media Matters

Not that anything Fox News could do would surprise me anymore, but you have to click the link and go see the photos in question. Not only are they altered, they are horribly altered. They made them look evil and cartoonish (thought not outrageously enough to be considered parody — still realistic seeming), which I am certain was their original motive, but the digital work is so poorly done it makes me wonder what kind of digital graphics artist they have working for them. Considering the sloppiness and poor quality of the work, I’d have to guess it was someone’s 10 year old kid, because even a 12 year old would have done a better job.

This is yet one more reason I believe nothing I see, hear, or read until I have verified it with multiple sources of good repute or done the fact-checking myself. If a news service is willing to completely edit a photo of someone they have a gripe with to make them look more evil or goofy and pass that photo off as being an actual representation of the person in question, what else would they make changes to and pass off as the real thing? Well, just about anything would be my guess.