{"id":14369,"date":"2011-10-26T07:29:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T14:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14369"},"modified":"2011-10-26T07:29:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T14:29:03","slug":"noms-unethical-swiping-of-obama-rally-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14369","title":{"rendered":"NOM&#8217;s Unethical Swiping of Obama Rally Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The website &#8220;Good As You&#8221; points out that NOM has swiped photos from Obama for President rallies and used them on their website as if they were photos of NOM rallies. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodasyou.org\/good_as_you\/2011\/10\/photo-a-mutant-strain-of-nom-misrepresentation.html\">Here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodasyou.org\/good_as_you\/2011\/10\/photo-a-mutant-strain-of-nom-misrepresentation-part-2.html\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it &#8212; this sort of error is funny. (And I&#8217;m sure people on all sides get caught making funny errors now and again.)<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s also bothersome, ethically. Aside from the obvious deception regarding the size of the crowds at NOM rallies, isn&#8217;t it wrong to use a photo of people who, it&#8217;s pretty safe to guess, overwhelmingly oppose NOM&#8217;s goals?<\/p>\n<p><em>[The above post was originally posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/familyscholars.org\/2011\/10\/26\/noms-unethical-swiping-of-obama-rally-photos\/\">Family Scholars Blog<\/a>. It got linked by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodasyou.org\/good_as_you\/2011\/10\/institute-for-american-values-blog-noms-photo-fakery-is-bothersome-ethically.html\">Good As You<\/a> and by <a href=\"http:\/\/thenewcivilrightsmovement.com\/2-as-nom-swipes-third-photo-right-wing-allies-label-actions-unethical\/legal-issues\/2011\/10\/26\/29220\">The New Civil Rights Movement<\/a>, where folks seem to be making some assumptions about who I am; the NCRM calls me a right-winger! :-p ]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The website &#8220;Good As You&#8221; points out that NOM has swiped photos from Obama for President rallies and used them on their website as if they were photos of NOM rallies. (Here and here.) Let&#8217;s face it &#8212; this sort &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14369\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crossposted-on-tada","category-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14370,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14369\/revisions\/14370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}