draw me a picture

Marie Claire decided to illustrate, via PhotoShop, a feature about ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas. (That’s her head attached to a picture of someone else.)

Drudge implies this is scandalous.

Vargas is said to be “disapppointed” at the decision of Marie Claire’s editors:

“Elizabeth was more than happy to sit for the interview but was disturbed that the magazine would set aside basic journalistic standards to photoshop her head onto a fake image. Vargas did joke that her real baby is cuter, that she is proud to breastfeed her newborn but wouldn’t do it at the anchor desk and that she wouldn’t be caught dead in that ugly gold blouse!”

I say she’s more happy about the attention than she is disturbed about the dumb “illustration.”

Still, best keep an eye on those magazines. Fauxtography isn’t just for Hezbollah propagandists anymore.