“A viral story about how a high school allegedly used Photoshop to change their students’ yearbook photos to make them thinner started on Reddit earlier this week and has appeared on Gawker, Jezebel, Gizmodo, PerezHilton, and elsewhere.
Headlines included, “All Girls’ High School Retouches Photos to Make Students Look Thinner” and “Terrible High School Photoshops Girls’ Yearbook Photos to Make Them Look Thinner.”
One of the first to post the story, Jezebel.com, explained that “One student … took to Reddit to express her outrage with her new photo — which she claims was a second ID issued to everyone apropos of nothing — and point out how ridiculous it is to photoshop young women’s faces, especially when she has spent such a long time learning to love everything about herself.””* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur & Ana Kasparian break it down.
*Read more here:
http://news.discovery.com/human/psychology/did-a-high-school-digitally-slim-a-girls-yearbook-photos-150112.htm