I believe the media does this, no doubt, but these pix aren't different enough to look intentionally lightened to deceive about race. The difference between them looks like a simple and non-drastic Levels adjustment to increase the contrast a bit. The dark parts of the photos look darker in addition to the lighter parts looking lighter.
The joe Rogan treatment.
that's color grading
Why didn't they color grade their brown asses even browner then?
We all know why.
they look like spics in both photos to me
lightened spics
Here's at least one outlet using the bleached out images.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLY2zO6ZYXA
If they tried to hide the fact they aren't white, they did a pretty bad job.
They look like a lot of people from south of the border.
I believe the media does this, no doubt, but these pix aren't different enough to look intentionally lightened to deceive about race. The difference between them looks like a simple and non-drastic Levels adjustment to increase the contrast a bit. The dark parts of the photos look darker in addition to the lighter parts looking lighter.
IMHO.