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Much like your Wonkette, Fox News also enjoys assigning comical file names to photographs. Although “Obama_WarCouncil_doomsday”? Ehh. A bit overwrought, as all those words mean the same thing. Thanks to URL Spy “Ryan L.” [monster; WarCouncil_doomsday; japan_monster]

UPDATE: Some Fox intern wrote in to Andrew Sullivan! Unlearn everything you thought you knew about FOX jpegs, stat.

It’s like this, see?

I am a former intern in Fox News’ web department, and I can tell you with certainty that “Doomsday” and “Monster” are internal code names used to describe the dimensions of images that appear on the FoxNews.com home page.

A “Doomsday Top” describes a wide oversized image, like the one of Obama’s War Council in this example.  When FoxNews.com goes into “Doomsday Mode,” a single story will appear above the fold with one large photograph, such as this one.

Likewise, “Monster” corresponds to another image size: Big, but not quite as big as Doomsday.  You will notice that the two images with the Monster title are the same size.

The fact that nobody bothered to rename these images something less ominous certainly constitutes laziness or carelessness on somebody’s part, but probably nothing more.

And yet what of “Japan”? Can’t exactly explain that one away.

[Andrew Sullivan]


10:45 AM on Thu November 19 2009
By Juli Weiner
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  1. Mr Blifil says at 10:47 am, November 19th, 2009

    Even the pixel dimensions skew right.

  2. ManchuCandidate says at 10:49 am, November 19th, 2009

    Obama is Godzilla?

  3. Are you going to make us have to type in those links ourselves?

  4. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 10:54 am, November 19th, 2009

  5. ManchuCandidate: No, Obama fought a monster in Japan. Then the monster grew to giant-size and Barack, Michelle and three others had to summon their robotic animals which combined to form a giant humanoid robot…

  7. If one of those photos doesn’t have either Godzilla or Mothra in it, I’m going to be highly disappointed.

  8. queeraselvis v 2.0: There’s a monster in my pants, I haven’t heard that in years, thank you so much.

  9. shortsshortsshorts says at 10:58 am, November 19th, 2009

    ManchuCandidate: GODZILLA IS ON NOTICE. Obama will not only beat the hell out of him and Mothra, he will bury them somewhere in his fortified adobe in Kenya.

  10. ManchuCandidate says at 10:59 am, November 19th, 2009

    JMP:
    It’s Obamatron!

  11. whiskey tango foxtrot says at 10:59 am, November 19th, 2009
  12. Brendan M. says at 10:59 am, November 19th, 2009

    Spike: My question exactly. The jealous young women who write/read/are aware of this blog are so lazy!

  14. Juli, I’m pretty sure you and your American-hating URL spy “Ryan L” are violating Fox News’s God-given First Amendment rights to freedom of religion, and other freedoms, that the troops are fighting so for. To.

    Also, RAAAACISM.

    And SEEEEXISM.

    Juli, you lean so far left in your hatred of real Americans, that you managed to lose the “e” in your name. Know who else didn’t have an “e” in his name? Hitler.

  15. freakishlystrong says at 11:02 am, November 19th, 2009

    Jesus, wait till he visits Nigeria…

  16. Fox News Light says at 11:03 am, November 19th, 2009

    Dangit I have already typed them out..Wonkette is out to get me I swear.

  17. phineas_bounderby says at 11:05 am, November 19th, 2009

    If you click on the file named Sarah_Palin_booksigning.mpg you get footage of the Nuremberg rallies.

  18. Brendan M. says at 11:06 am, November 19th, 2009

  19. No, it’s quite reasonable. They merely left off the word ‘cock’ before the image size.

  20. hockeymom says at 11:08 am, November 19th, 2009

    Could someone explain how this file name thing works? It’s not just computer generated?
    I will gage my level of outrage, accordingly.

  21. AnnieGetYourFun says at 11:08 am, November 19th, 2009
  22. AnnieGetYourFun says at 11:09 am, November 19th, 2009

    freakishlystrong: Oh, wow. YES.

  23. …hence the very well known ‘Doomsday Cock’.

  24. GOP/FOX marketing platform: “Hope for Failure”

  25. Larry McAwful says at 11:12 am, November 19th, 2009

    Palin/Mothra 2012!

  26. Katydid: You have distilled all of American conservative politics into one brilliant question and response.

    Know who else didn’t have an “e” in his name? Hitler.

    That should be put in diamonds on a titanium plate and bolted to Reagan’s tombstone.

  27. Uppity_Serving_Boy.jpg

  28. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 11:21 am, November 19th, 2009

    phineas_bounderby: Nice. But I figured it would be more like this.

  29. Tundra Grifter says at 11:50 am, November 19th, 2009

    Is this why ClusterFox (GOPTV) continues to run video of one event while claiming it’s another?

    They can’t label their work correctly?

  30. comicbookguy says at 12:27 pm, November 19th, 2009

    Tundra Grifter: It was an honest mistake. Someone at the news desk clicked on patriotic_uprising_we_organized_and_staged_to_crush_obama.mov

  31. TedTheLightBulbSalesman says at 1:04 pm, November 19th, 2009

    Two of the photos share the same suffix (_monster_397×224.jpg), which suggests that their photo editing process is somewhat automated. Like, the photo editor will run the file “obama_japan.jpg” through a script, which re-sizes and compresses the photo, then spits out “obama_japan_monster_397×224.jpg.” My guess is that it’s a photo/Web intern who thinks he or she is really sticking it to the man.

  32. Tsk, tsk, Juli. Fox’s naming of its jpg files is completely neutral, as you can see below:

    http://www.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/Politics/111809_obro_doomsday_604×341.jpg

  33. Extemporanus says at 1:30 pm, November 19th, 2009

    My name is URL.

  34. confederette libtard says at 1:41 pm, November 19th, 2009
  35. eclecticbrotha says at 1:49 pm, November 19th, 2009

    Silly ducks. Obama is Monster Zero. Remember him? Three headed monster also known as “King Ghidorah” that looks suspiciously like thee Beast who hangs out with the Anti-Christ? With the zero being code for the letter “O” as in OHMYFUCKINGGODRUNFORYOURLIVESITSTHESOCIALISTGRANDMAKILLINGCONSTITUTIONEATINGMONSTERSPACEALIENLIZARDFROMKENYABECAUSEHAWAIIISAFOREIGNCOUNTRYANDWHEREISHISBIRTHCERTICATEYAAAAAAAA!!

    http://www.cinemastrikesback.com/news/new%20dailies/GodzillaandToho/ghidorah1-1024.jpg

    Epic Gojira trivia fail, bitches.

  36. eclecticbrotha says at 1:53 pm, November 19th, 2009

    HAHA

    Run-on nickname fail.

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