Digg it!They say a picture says a thousand words… sometimes, all of those words are lies.
This is the case in the photos below that became so popular it caused revolutions and civil unrest.
Below are the stories behind the photos.
10. The Vietcong
Photographer: Eddie Adams
The photo seem to have a ruthless leader executing an innocent man. In reality, the guy holding a gun is Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnam’s national police chief. He was doing all he could to keep Viet Cong guerrillas from Saigon. The guy he is shooting is one of the many guerrillas who hurt many innocent people.
9. April Fool s From Outer Space
April 2010: Three astronauts living aboard the International Space Station sent to Mission Control this April Fool’s Day prank photo of themselves floating in space without spacesuits. “You have a real problem”, responded Mission Control. “Don’t worry, we are wearing sunscreen”, responded the astronauts.
8. The Disappearing Cigarette
Photographer: I don’t know
Paul McCartney was holding a cigarette in this shot. Without McCartney’s knowledge, the label erased it in the final artwork.
7. The President Aint That Cool
This is, perhaps, the most recent. It shows President Obama supposedly checking out the ass of 16-year-old Brazilian girl Mayora Taveres. Well, the story is not half as cool.
If you watch the full video you’ll see that Obama was in the midst of an entirely gentlemanly maneuver—he’s about to offer his hand to the girl in the floral skirt and black top behind him to help her step down to his level.
6. The Smoke That Wasn t There
Photoshopped by: Adnan Hajj
A reader named “Mike” pointed out that the photo had been changed using the Photoshop “clone” tool. Check out the difference of two above. No one was directly harmed by the photo but hey, Journalism is supposed to be about the truth and accuracy.
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It’s 1am and I can’t help but keep thinking about this old finerd of mine since I found out about his premature death this morning. I would close my eyes and a flash back of our get-together in LA from a few years ago would keep popping up in my head. He had told me that he planned on moving to LA but that was the last time I heard from him. I terribly regret not doing a better job at keeping in touch with this old finerd. In fact I did a very lousy job at that, always trying to justify that there is no time to keep in touch with old finerds. As I ramble on, the good old days from HK are now coming back to me. Ravi was always intelligent but fun to be with both inside and outside of school. Especially when we got to sixth form and all the sixth form guys would always try to balance out study with fun-too much fun sometimes and end up getting in trouble. Those were such happy memories!Ravi, may your soul be in a peaceful place and look over your parents and family.Please forgive me for not being there to support you thru this battle.You will be missed Ravi.Katherine Chan (old finerd from SGS, HK)
That’s really thinking at an impreisvse level
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