We talk a lot about media bias here at TruthRevolt. Typically, we expose how leftist reporters steer the narrative with an inherent anti-conservative bias. But there are more subtle ways journalists get in their jabs, like in the photos they choose for stories or covers.

Jay Caruso, a writer at Acculturated and a photographer, made several observations of a recent feature of Kellyanne Conway in New York magazine. Simply put, the editors chose a completely unflattering picture of the top White House counselor and frankly, it seemed on purpose:

As you can tell from the shadows, it’s diffused, but is still not all that pleasing. Any photographer with any experience shooting headshots will tell you that having a subject stare straight ahead into the camera is a poor choice. Most people have an issue with one eye being slightly larger and sometimes not aligned entirely with their other eye. The easiest way to address this is to have subjects slightly turn their heads to the side to address it. Also, there were no touch-ups on Conway’s face. She is a fifty-year-old woman, and no photo editing software can make her look 20 years younger, but some simple edits can easily make the photo appear more pleasing.

As a photographer with editing skills on Photoshop, Caruso used the image and did a quick, ten-minute mockup and produced a much better image (original image top, Caruso’s edited image bottom):

“Bias in journalism can, unfortunately, extend to bias in photojournalism,” Caruso said.

Remember this Newsweek cover featuring a wild-eyed Michele Bachmann from 2011?

“It’s as if the staff at Newsweek went through every image they were given and picked the worst one to use,” noted Caruso.

Here are a few other covers which flatter Democrats while lampooning Donald Trump:

Caruso concludes:

As the history of visual propaganda reminds us, images can be as powerful as words in promoting ideology.  And since the clichés are true – every picture tells a story and a picture is worth a thousand words – perhaps conservative men and women in the public eye should start demanding final approval of the images the mainstream media uses of them.  Or at least insist on using their own photographers.