A Biased BBC reader alerts us to this story. It concerns the sentencing of a Polish immigrant for the brutal murder of a young girl here in Northern Ireland. Scroll down the story and have a look at the image of the murdered girl.
“Their priority? To airbrush out of the tragic girl’s fingers the cigarette she was smoking when photographed. Is a non-smoker’s life more important than that of a smoker?”
UPDATE; Thanks to DB for making me aware that whilst this is an airbrushed image, the likelihood is that it was her family that did so. That said, when the BBC uses such airbrushed images from whatever source it seems reasonable that we challenge it.
What a sad, pathetic mind-set rules the land – and it’s nothing less than blatant censorship.
A quick search on Google Images indicates that the image of Shirley was not airbrushed by the BBC. I suggest that the photo used was probably one of the last her family had of her, and it was they who wanted the picture doctored.
This memorial page for Shirley has an even clumsier photoshop of the same picture, but I can understand why her friends and family did it.
I thought they had airbrushed the whiskey glass from her hand.