Fox News Breezes By New Low

Media Matters has a comparison of the actual photos of two NYT journalists -- editor Steven Reddicliffe and reporter Jacques Steinberg -- and the apparently ridiculously photoshopped versions that aired on a Fox and Friends segment calling them "Attack Dogs" (in response to an article Steinberg published about Fox News' falling ratings). Later in the segment they put Steinberg's head on a poodle's body, so I guess we are meant to know that all the images here are fake, but this seemed a little less clear:

The NYT's David Carr, who writes about media in the Business section, had a whole article on Fox News where he responded to Media Matter's piece, saying:

"The accompanying photographs were heavily altered, although the audience was probably none the wiser. Mr. Reddicliffe looked like the wicked witch after a hard night of drinking, but it was the photo of Mr. Steinberg that stopped traffic when it appeared on the Web at Media Matters side by side with his actual photo. In a technique familiar to students of vintage German propaganda, his ears were pulled out, his teeth splayed apart, his forehead lowered and his nose was widened and enlarged in a way that made him look more like Fagin than the guy I work with. (Mr. Steinberg told me that as a working reporter who covers Fox News, he was not in a position to comment. A spokeswoman said the executive in charge of “Fox and Friends” is on vacation and not available for comment but added that altering photos for humorous effect is a common practice on cable news stations.)"

Very classy.