arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

The source of the image is footage from the BBC. The Standard's paperboys were obviously allowed to clone and blur the image in numerous ways to make it look like a gigantic crowd. This was first exposed on the UK Indymedia site. A user named Gnu posted the image below, which highlights some of the most obvious signs of fakery.

The red circles show a man in a turban who appears three times. The purple circles highlight an unknown object that also appears thrice. The blue circles show two instances of an identical white object, disembodied arm, and partial male faces.

The black circles show something a little different. Obviously, two different still-frames from the footage were used, because the man with sunglasses and white, open-collar shirt appears twice but in a different pose, as do the men on either side of him.

The green line indicates where the image was clumsily smudged in order to cover up the fact that it had been stitched together.

http://www.thememoryhole.org/media/evening-standard-crowd.htm

Thanks for publishing these pictures. Upon first viewing this fiasco on the news, it seemed phony, but I imagine most people simply accepted what was presented to be an accurate representation. Unfortunately few in Amerika see fit to question anything that comes from the Bush-Cheney Junta or their running dogs the mainstream media. I read about this picture in The Nation, one of the few publications who try to tell the truth.