{"id":3810,"date":"2016-12-13T11:23:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T10:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2016-12-13T11:23:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T10:23:54","slug":"beautiful-people-ugly-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/3810\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful People, Ugly Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I&#8217;ll qualify this post by stating that I don&#8217;t endorse every post that appears at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/heartiste.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ch\u00e2teau Heartiste<\/a>, and his comments section is rather too full of Jew-hatred for my liking, but he makes a good observation <a href=\"https:\/\/heartiste.wordpress.com\/2016\/12\/07\/the-attractive-person-stock-photo-snow-job\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Something I\u2019ve noticed, and which has been increasingly evident of late, is the leftoid legacy media\u2019s penchant for leading off their lifestyle and culture stories with un-captioned and unidentified stock photos of attractive people intended to mislead readers into assuming the photo is of the author[s] or of the people covered in the article.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The example CH links to is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/lifestyle\/sex\/a39309\/genetic-sexual-attraction-incest-sibling-relationship\/\" target=\"_blank\">a piece<\/a>\u00a0showing romantic love between siblings in a positive light. \u00a0Incest, basically. \u00a0Here is the photo used to illustrate the article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Incest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3811\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Incest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Incest.jpg 980w, http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Incest-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Incest-768x384.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Incest-500x250.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now do you really believe that photo is of 40 year old &#8220;Melissa&#8221; and her 45 year old brother &#8220;Brian&#8221;? \u00a0Probably not, but anyone reading the article would have their initial take skewed by that image, which is the intention of course. \u00a0Roissy puts it a little more bluntly than that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This stock photo snow job is legacy media SOP now, and the purpose is to fool the reader about the ugliness of the author[s] or of the people interviewed for the article, for if readers fully grasped that almost all feminist-friendly and shitlib-gratifying culture and lifestyle stories were written by warpigs, about warpigs, then there might be fewer credulous readers lapping up the legacy media\u2019s runny gruel.<\/p>\n<p>Polyamory stories are a classic case of the stock photo snow job, in which one will often see a good-looking couple at the header of the article, only to discover upon further investigation that the featured polyamorists are all physically as well as mentally repulsive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find once you are aware of this practice you&#8217;ll start seeing it everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I&#8217;ll qualify this post by stating that I don&#8217;t endorse every post that appears at\u00a0Ch\u00e2teau Heartiste, and his comments section is rather too full of Jew-hatred for my liking, but he makes a good observation here: Something I\u2019ve &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/3810\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3813,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions\/3813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}