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JOURNAL de MONTREAL: DUBIOUS DISCOURSE

Posted on 8 May by Vernon
Pierre’s heroic charge toward the riot police lost some steam when he realized his brick was actually a spoiled two-pound package of cream cheese.

Is that brick from a novelty shop, or is this guy hurling a loaf of pumpernickel?  Also, is that running, or is he auditioning for a Bob Fosse retrospective?  “Don’t tase me, bro!  I’m just making jazz hands!”

Thanks Marie-Elaine. The original was found in the JOURNAL de MONTREAL.

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  • Marvin

    There is no way the rest of the cops would be standing around here.  I have yet to know a police department that embraces mano-a-mano fights.  Had this been a real picture there won’t be a single law-enforcer confronting the fellow.  There would be at least three and they would be really pissed off,

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=594989127 Spillage Griffiths

      But this is in Canada -eh?

      • Marvin

         Are you really this dumb? 

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lightstriker-Stormyhahaha/1046633734 Lightstriker Stormyhahaha

         But not Toronto. -eh?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lightstriker-Stormyhahaha/1046633734 Lightstriker Stormyhahaha

    Looks like the right arm and legs have been beat up a few times by editorial PS. 

    • Alexandre Dumas

      The original photo is here : http://storage.canoe.ca/v1/jdx-prod-images/1310729955554_ORIGINAL.jpg?quality=80. I see cropping and color adjustment, nothing else.

      • Cropper

        Nice find.

      • Le_Bob

        Actually, by removing a cop they change the narrative (2 vs 1 becomes 1 vs armed one).
        Ethically very bad.

        • Sarah_YourFace

          Newspapers crop photos all the time – the decision to do so here isn’t an ethical issue.

          • Le_Bob

            Yes it is:
            The original has a single guy without help confronting at lest two officers, yards away from a long line of standing cops.
            The cropped version shows a balanced fight between an armed guy and an armored cop, we don’t know if either has got help, as the 4 cops in the back are now distant and could be addressing other protesters.

            Original: Cops in control, protester isolated
            Cropped: Maybe the protesters are about to overrun the police. Conveniently matches the doomsday title, just in case you need a hint that it was intentional.

            Definitely changed the narrative of the picture. Unethical.

      • mitte

        The “original”: how did you find this? You seem to know the canoe website very well (canoe=quebecor=Journal de Montreal).

        Anyways, that “original” seems like it has already gone through modifications: the right arm of the brick thrower seems to come out of nowhere, the brick doesn’t look like a brick and the way the body is positionned seems to be in contradiction with the movement of throwing a brick. 

        • Goodbye

          the world is not a movie. people get into extremely awkward and ugly positions when they are being violent and they are ‘frozen’ by a camera, as you could see from half the newspapers published in the last 100 years.  The creature posting this article told you this is a brick; it could be anything. I’m sure you were all here a few days ago, when these foolscouldn’t be bothered to spend 5 seconds looking up a model of camera to see what size the lens was… this site is a pitiful mockery of what it used to be, and now specialises in creepy debates about whether a model can bend her fingers or not.

          • Waldobaby

             It’s amazing how superior you make yourself out to be. “…these fools”, “pitiful”, “creepy”. Yes, we are. What’s your point?

            Oh, wait. You can’t answer. You already said goodbye. Bye!

          • Peter

            Word. The ‘brick’ resembles more of a piece of fire wood or something.

        • Alexandre Dumas

           There : http://ca.news.yahoo.com/photos/police-students-clash-in-victoriaville-que-slideshow/police-advance-protester-lobs-debris-them-during-demonstration-photo-000033106.html

          Happy now, a non-Quebecor Source : Photo By CHRISTINNE MUSCHI/REUTERS. You can put your tin foil back on.

      • Anonymous

        The Original?? jejejejejeejejej Stupid!!!  canoe = quebecor = Journal de Montreal is the same! 

  • Patrice

    There’s a actually a huge students’ strike in Quebec currently, which has been going on for almost three months, and in that picture (as elsewhere in Victoriaville last week-end, where the Liberal party, currently governing here, was holding a big rally) angry people where present by the thousand and throwing actual bits of broken pavement on the policemen, who threw back tear gas and other such things. A number of people hurt, one lost an eye, a policeman got beaten up.  Ouch!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_L5DQFVHHBFI4PF2NWAP3RBJAHA kleenex

    They are improving the picture by making him look this way…

  • stella

    Am I the only impressed that he is able to keep protesting with a broken ankle?

  • Berry

    The odd shape of the brick is probably something like a rolling shutter artifact, the effect that produces things like this:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Turboprop_Rolling_Shutter.jpg

  • Rudy

    @b3e7a0834b5b80ad29b08d40ce56496c:disqus … The officers are given different orders/duties. What you perceive as “standing around” is more likely an order to “hold the line” – they are not to give up position.  BTW, the original shows two officers, and there could be others right outside of the crop.@admin… this is not a PSD. This is an effect caused by the throwing motion being faster than the shutter speed. As a result, the motion is distorted as blurred and elongated. The rest of the pic is sharp because all of the other movements are slower than the shutter speed.

  • rj5555

    No psd disaster

  • Andre

    Not a PsD.

    His body position may be strange but this images of javelin throwers may put it in perpective
    http://img.yonhapnews.co.kr/photo/yna/YH/2011/09/02/PYH2011090214650034100_P2.jpg
    http://hssn-media.advance.net/OregonLive.com/news/b97449ade6ea62e9dc9901ad49671789/A%20KELLER2-sized.jpg

     The brick may also look strange but it looks like to be broken and it also looks like the picture was taken just as is was about to be thrown, and that why it looks as is is to be held in a strange way.

    But comparing the image in the cover of the magazine with this one http://storage.canoe.ca/v1/jdx-prod-images/1310729955554_ORIGINAL.jpg?quality=80 it is clear that the levels of the image were tuned so it would look lighter and that added digital noise (that is clear in the jacket of the protester) to the cover image.
    It is not the first time a non-PsD is published here and I have already left a comment about that in a previous image, the editors should be more carefull when posting this and I say it again, in doubt ask someone who works with Photoshop to avoid this.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ariel-Alejandro-Castro-Olguin/100000767641055 Ariel Alejandro Castro Olguin

       omg! the 3rd photo woman broke her arm?!?!

  • Yo_momma

    If it isn’t a PSD, then it should be funny. This isn’t either. 

  • Jamcar

    I see nothing wrong with this anatomy. hands are Ok ankles are Ok – agree with Alex Dumas

  • CragAntler

    That guy throws like a girl.