Wed, May 21, 2008
Eyes front... shirt off—4:37 PM
It's Yearbook Photo Wednesday here at onebee!
The company in charge of snapping yearbook shots for McKinney High School in Texas is apologizing for digitally altering many students' images in unexpected ways: swapping heads, elongating necks, in one case (allegedly) removing a girl's shirt. Apparently, the school asked them to crop and resize the photos so the heads would be the same size and someone got carried away in Photoshop. (Which, I can attest, is very easy to do in Photoshop.)
Obviously, this is a pain in the ass for the school and the yearbook staff, but it's also freaking hilarious. And the photo company is stepping up and paying for the reprinted books so, all in all, not a big deal. In the local paper, the apologetic VP is quoted atoning for "the pain we have put parents, students and yearbook staff through." Pain? Sounds like a bit much. This is another side effect of our culture's media saturation: when every event is a news event, people will talk like they're at a major press conference all the time. Which means – you guessed it – Pussy Apologies all around.
