Saturday, August 29, 2009

Was this Racist?

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Photo editors at newspapers and magazines, for the most part, want to do the right thing. They would like to present the world as the multicultural, racism-free mosaic that most of us would like to live in.

But with the advent of technology, some editors are trying to force diversity into images. The results can bring howls of laughter or claims of racism.

Recently, Microsoft Poland has come under scrutiny for an advertising campaign photo that swapped out the picture of a black man in a meeting and replaced his head with that of a white man.

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