This image, with the following slug, went out on the Reuters wire today:
U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York September 14, 2005. World leaders are exploring ways to revitalize the United Nations at a summit on Wednesday but their blueprint falls short of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's vision of freedom from want, persecution and war. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
Surprise! Presidents pee, too. They also eat, brush, floss, scratch, poop and probably sing in the shower. And, according to our former President Carter, they also "lust in their heart."
No matter which side of the political fence you stand on, it’s pretty obvious the objective of this wire release and its bias. What's the journalistic purpose of this story? Did we not realize that the President had bodily needs before this important news story?
I’m just curious why we didn’t see a photo wire release like this about six years ago…
Just having fun with the camera phone.
-aB
2 comments:
Reuters released an explanation of the note, via PDN Online. You can read it here.
The note was zoomed and burned in Photoshop to make it able to be read.
Editor & Publisher released an editorial chastizing the juvenille note here.
-aB
I love how Reuters gets blamed for what the American people are interested in -- bathroom habits. It was one of thousands of photos transmitted over the wires that day, but the one that everyone picked up and passed around. Very symbolic somehow.
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