10-04-2015, 11:21 PM
I searched around. There's nothing but rumors and circular links between extreme conservative/conspiracy site commenters claiming that CNN edited/displayed that altered photo.
It doesn't take a couple of days to produce such easily obtainable source proof. The CNN logo or banner is always on display during their news broadcasts, but it isn't present in that alleged CNN "screenshot". Also, there's no date/time of the broadcast provided by whomever claims to have screen-captured CNN displaying that bogus photo (which nobody else seems to have seen broadcast on CNN).
I think it's most likely that the "CNN/altered photo" rumor is false and was probably ignited by someone again trolling the extreme conservative/conspiracy sites and their racially-obsessed readers.
Anyway, it really doesn't make any sense for a credible news organization to risk their reputation with a blatant, intentional, tangible distortion of the story, for what? CNN covers white, black, brown and mixed race multiple murderers in similar fashion all too frequently; those killers' brand of mental illness and/or rage is non-discriminatory. The last several public multiple murderers that spring to mind: Holmes (white), Dorner (black), Navy base shooter (black), Lanza (white), Tsarnaevs (white Muslim), Rodger (white/Asian), Roof (white), Flanagan (white/black), Mercer (mixed race).
It doesn't take a couple of days to produce such easily obtainable source proof. The CNN logo or banner is always on display during their news broadcasts, but it isn't present in that alleged CNN "screenshot". Also, there's no date/time of the broadcast provided by whomever claims to have screen-captured CNN displaying that bogus photo (which nobody else seems to have seen broadcast on CNN).
I think it's most likely that the "CNN/altered photo" rumor is false and was probably ignited by someone again trolling the extreme conservative/conspiracy sites and their racially-obsessed readers.
Anyway, it really doesn't make any sense for a credible news organization to risk their reputation with a blatant, intentional, tangible distortion of the story, for what? CNN covers white, black, brown and mixed race multiple murderers in similar fashion all too frequently; those killers' brand of mental illness and/or rage is non-discriminatory. The last several public multiple murderers that spring to mind: Holmes (white), Dorner (black), Navy base shooter (black), Lanza (white), Tsarnaevs (white Muslim), Rodger (white/Asian), Roof (white), Flanagan (white/black), Mercer (mixed race).