{"id":1399910,"date":"2022-03-25T07:46:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T11:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1399910"},"modified":"2022-03-25T07:46:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T11:46:45","slug":"why-is-nbc-news-doctoring-photos-of-lia-thomas-to-look-less-masculine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-is-nbc-news-doctoring-photos-of-lia-thomas-to-look-less-masculine\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is NBC News Doctoring Photos Of Lia Thomas To Look Less Masculine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-is-nbc-news-doctoring-photos-of-lia-thomas-to-look-less-masculine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1399910&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As controversy swirls, the corporate media are continuing to run interference for Lia Thomas, the male swimmer who identifies as transgender and recently won the NCAA Women\u2019s 500-yard freestyle. But NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d has taken it one step further, deceptively editing a photojournalist\u2019s pictures of the athlete to make Thomas\u2019s masculine features look \u201csoftened.\u201d But why?<\/p>\n<p>Photojournalist Erica Denhoff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/photographer-surprised-and-disappointed-at-todays-edited-lia-thomas-photos\">told<\/a> the Washington Examiner she was \u201cdisappointed\u201d when she learned that NBC had altered photos she had taken of the swimmers to soften Thomas\u2019s appearance. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I first noticed the airbrushing on the segment referenced, I thought something was honestly wrong with the video. But then, I watched it again and thought, \u2018Wait a minute, this appears to be intentional. Lia\u2019s features are softened,\u2019\u201d Denhoff said. \u201cI then went to my original photo, on the sites that they could access to license the photo, and compared it and immediately saw a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The difference is glaring. Look at the actual <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NeoPagliacci\/status\/1505258451903172608\">picture<\/a> of the swimmer next to NBC\u2019s Photoshop attempt, as well as the obviously \u201csoftened\u201d photos in the \u201cToday\u201d segment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-24-at-3.39.53-PM-978x1024-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-269622\" width=\"721\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-24-at-3.39.53-PM-978x1024-1.png 978w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-24-at-3.39.53-PM-287x300-1.png 287w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-24-at-3.39.53-PM-768x804-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-24-at-3.39.53-PM.png 1192w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"fmLV20\"><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI pride myself on providing authentic images as a photojournalist,\u201d Denhoff said, adding, \u201cIt\u2019s really important as photojournalists that we transmit authentic photos that have not been altered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Giving accurate portrayals of reality in the news is important, as all journalists should know, so why did NBC doctor the images? The reason is simple: Thomas didn\u2019t look enough like a woman \u2014 because Thomas isn\u2019t one.<\/p>\n<p>The left\u2019s gender orthodoxy has taken such root in media, technology, entertainment, education, and even government and the military that resistance to it is not tolerated. Professors indoctrinate from the lectern that not all \u201cmenstruators\u201d and \u201cbirthing persons\u201d are women. Collegiate athletic associations rewrite game rules to allow grown men in women\u2019s sports. Supreme Court nominees claim they \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/23\/judge-nominated-to-supreme-court-on-the-basis-of-her-sex-cant-define-woman\/\">can\u2019t<\/a>\u201d define the word \u201cwoman,\u201d top military brass are more concerned with transgender inclusivity than national security, and the president of the United States can appoint a person with an XY chromosomal pairing as secretary of health and declare him to be the \u201cfirst female four-star admiral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, detractors of this groupthink are branded as bigots and transphobes and silenced on college campuses and in the workplace. Just this week, Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/22\/twitter-bans-babylon-bee-staff-charlie-kirk-for-saying-men-are-men-and-mocking-censorship\/\">silenced<\/a> satire website The Babylon Bee for stating that men are men and women are women, claiming it violated a policy against \u201chateful conduct.\u201d According to that policy, the Bee either \u201cpromote[d] violence, threaten[ed], or harass[ed],\u201d none of which were true. <\/p>\n<p>But that didn\u2019t stop the leftist thought police from demanding that a right-leaning website delete its truth statement (<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/21\/the-babylon-bees-twitter-resistance-is-a-lesson-in-taking-on-tech-tyrants\/\">it didn\u2019t<\/a>), to enable the left\u2019s gender dogma to prevail unquestioned. Big Tech couldn\u2019t leave sex truth claims to circulate freely; you can\u2019t permit resistance to the narrative when that narrative is so untethered from objective reality that one whisper of fact completely undoes it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s for that reason that NBC couldn\u2019t air accurate pictures of Thomas in a segment using \u201cshe\u201d and \u201cher\u201d to describe the athlete\u2019s victory over females. An unedited picture of Thomas with all the athlete\u2019s authentic masculine features is the equivalent of a satire website correctly identifying Joe Biden\u2019s Secretary of Health Rachel Levine as a man \u2014 it exposes the left\u2019s gender narrative as the obvious lie that is.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate implication of all of this is that NBC does not believe its own lie that men and women are indistinguishable. After all, if it truly believed that Thomas is no different than the athlete\u2019s female competitors, why would it need to artificially feminize the swimmer\u2019s features? <\/p>\n<p>It wouldn\u2019t. While the censors, media networks, and other left-wing leaders can do their best to keep the flimsy, anti-science gender narrative intact, the fact is that when reality threatens to expose its falsehoods, they reveal that they know it\u2019s a lie too. When NBC softens photos of a transgender swimmer, it admits that the truth is easy to see: Men and women are different.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Kylee Zempel is an assistant editor at The Federalist. She previously worked as the copy editor for the Washington Examiner magazine and as an editor and producer at National Geographic. She holds a B.S. in Communication Arts\/Speech and an A.S. in Criminal Justice and writes on topics including feminism and gender issues, religious liberty, and criminal justice. Follow her on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kyleezempel\">@kyleezempel<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As controversy swirls, the corporate media are continuing to run interference for Lia Thomas, the male swimmer who identifies as transgender and recently won the NCAA Women\u2019s 500-yard freestyle. 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