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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Media Because There's Nothing More Fun Than a Digitally Added African-Canadian Guy

Posted by David Schmader on Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:21 PM

Canada's National Post reports on Toronto's digital addition of a black guy to the cover of the city's Fun Guide, to be more "inclusive."

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Thanks for the heads-up, MetaFilter (which took care to remind us of this Oniony precedent.)

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What's the difference between this and your employment of Charles Mudede?

Posted by Parker Todd on July 7, 2009 at 12:27 PM

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/386…

Posted by paulus on July 7, 2009 at 12:31 PM

oh, disregard.

Posted by paulus on July 7, 2009 at 12:32 PM

Oh MAN, I love seeing reposts of funny news from three weeks ago! I am LOL-ing!

Posted by Greta Van Cistern on July 7, 2009 at 12:32 PM

Well, @4, I guess you could only read Mudede's posts. That way you could get not-very-funny news that's only three days old.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on July 7, 2009 at 12:43 PM

Another way to look at it would be they had a picture of a black guy and photoshopped in some white people.

I find it telling that you automatically assumed that it was the black man who was photoshopped in.

Why do you have to be so racist against black people all of the time?

Posted by Chuck Taylor on July 7, 2009 at 12:46 PM

Jeez, Fun Guide, if you're going to do that, at least put some effort into it. That looks awful.

Posted by Aaron Huffman on July 7, 2009 at 12:49 PM

I am offended by the lame Photoshop hatchet job.

Posted by Greg on July 7, 2009 at 12:51 PM

It reminds me of a simpson's episode where there are before and after images of the town being cleaned up and a homeless guy gets photoshopped into a mailbox.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on July 7, 2009 at 12:53 PM

It's an ad, not journalism. Ads are Photoshopped all to hell every day of the week. Find me one major ad that HASN'T been Photoshopped. This is non-news.

It is, however, a terrible Photoshop job. Their graphic designer should be fired for incompetence.

Posted by Reverse Polarity on July 7, 2009 at 12:58 PM

Nobody has yet commented on the racial undertones of turning the WHITE sky into a blue one...

There's racism everywhere if you look hard enough.

Posted by Ackham on July 7, 2009 at 1:01 PM

They at least could have 'shopped him staring at something other than his wife's tits. Oh and sorry, guy, you don't appear to be the the father.

Posted by w7ngman

on July 7, 2009 at 1:13 PM

I like how it says "Learn to Swim" right next to the brutha.

Posted by McGee on July 7, 2009 at 1:27 PM

@12: I was reading his expression as "Why the hell are these crazy white people hugging me? Better plaster on a fake grin and hope they let go soon..."

Posted by Grist on July 7, 2009 at 1:40 PM