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iTunes Doctors Image From Hit TV Show

by Will Safer on July 18, 2008 at 07:04 PM





Don't believe everything you read... or see.

It's a time-honored practice to alter photos that don't adhere to certain political, strategic or social goals. Leon Trotsky was removed from photographs under Vladimir Lenin's reign. Celebrity magazine covers are notorious for air-brushing starlets to appear thinner, tanner or wrinkle-free. Even news events are skewed when states (just the rogue sort?) send out propaganda of missile tests that supposedly go off without a flaw but instead turn out to be doctored.

So it comes as no surprise that in the world of entertainment and advertising, the original message is made more, shall we say, family-friendly when, for example, all the guns are removed from the movie 'E.T.,' or now when the iTunes store wipes out the image of a cigarette from its page for the hit cable TV show 'Mad Men.'

Yes, the TV show about 1960s Madison Avenue advertising executives peddling the benefits of cigarette smoking had the cigarette removed from the official iTunes page.

While we were looking into the matter, though, the cigarette magically reappeared. Hmmmm. Compare the three images above for yourself. The first is from the 'Mad Men' Web site. The second is from iTunes earlier in the day. And the third is current.

Looks like someone in Apple-land has been busy with Photoshop. [Source: Gawker]


Tags: advertising, apple, doctor, itunes, mad men, MadMen, photoshop

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