President Bush visited with Jason McElwain, an autistic high school senior who made headlines recently when he sunk six three-pointer shots and a single shot for a total of 20 points in the last three minutes of a high school basketball game (video). The AP covered the visit today, which took place on an airport tarmac at Greater Rochester International Airport. Among the photos published by the news service, there were these which at first glance, look rather bizarre.
I had to look twice before I saw what was going on with this. Apparently, someone was offering cardboard cutouts of Jason’s ‘game face’ on a stick and that’s what the president is holding as he hugs the flesh and bones Jason. Yet with this 2 dimensional photo spread, it just looks weird.
The AP took a memorable moment for Jason and created a skewed perspective. Why would they run such strange looking photos?
Of all the photos that were taken at this meeting, the AP chose this one. No bias here. Nope.
“Why would they run such strange looking photos?”
I hate to be the one to tell you, but there are many journalists who have foresaken their professional credo of fairness and the quest for truth, and decided to try to make the President look bad in any way they can. They don’t really care what it does to the country or how it enables the crountry’s enemies… they are only concerned about their own success – because their editors want that kind of material. Ironically, this type of ass-kissing is what journalists call “getting ahead”. I’m glad I am not a journalist. I would not do such things, but I would not like to have to associate with those who do, who are unfortunately, the majority.
As a former journalist, I can say that it is this kind of “journalism” that led me to be a former journalist. There is no such thing as objectivity. It’s a lie. And the Associated Press boasts some of the biggest liars out there.