The two pictures above are supposed to be the same picture -- a picture of all the members of the new Israeli Cabinet. The picture on top is the one that was featured in the mainstream Israei newspapers. The one on the bottom is a digitally-altered version of the photo that ran in a newspaper (Yated Neeman) that caters to ultra-Orthodox Jews. Notice the difference?
Here's a clue. One of the mainstream newspapers shoed both pictures together under the headline "Find the lady". That's right. The ultra-Orthodox newspaper has digitally erased the two women in the Israeli Cabinet (Limor Livnat and Sofa Landver) from the picture, and put male figures in their place. They did it because publishing the pictures of women is considered a violation of female modesty by ultra-Orthodox Jews.
I have to think though -- isn't this a LIE? Isn't it dishonest to digitally alter a picture and then print it claiming it is the Israeli Cabinet, when it clearly is not? Is it really more ethical or more religiously correct to lie than to print a picture of two intelligent and successful women, especially since those women are proud of what they've accomplished and don't mind in the least their picture being in the paper.
Sometimes people take religious rules to lengths that really don't make sense.
Isn't it dishonest to digitally alter a picture and then print it claiming it is...
ReplyDeleteYep, sure is.
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Everybody does it. That doesn't make it right, but everybody does it.
It used to be said, "Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear." Now you can't even believe half of what you see. Pity.