Date: 2003-09-11 12:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redaxe.livejournal.com
It's hard to tell, with the shadows obscuring the buildings directly on the water. But it looks to me very like the skyline as seen from New Jersey (looking east across the Hudson, as opposed to looking west from Brooklyn, across the East River).

Not to mention that the skyline flattens significantly more than this appears to, at the Upper West Side.

Either way, the photo editor ought to have been careful to avoid even the APPEARANCE of buildings like the WTC Towers. (Kind of like news stations need to avoid the APPEARANCE of unfair and imbalanced reportage. Remind me to tell you about working in the next building over from NewsCorp sometime -- especially during the anthrax scares.)

Date: 2003-09-11 12:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jesseh.livejournal.com
If it's a picture of the sun rising, it's from Brooklyn, facing East into the sunrise, no? I'm no fan of Fox News, but this is what the skyline's going to look like now.

Date: 2003-09-11 01:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jesseh.livejournal.com
Sorry, I was turned around. It is from Jersey. http://www.snopes.com/humor/mediagoofs/blackout.asp

Date: 2003-09-11 06:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redaxe.livejournal.com
I see it now. It is still hard to see the skyline as Upper West Side; it's typically perceived as not high rise (but that's just because 24 story apartment buildings are in fact much lower than 50- and 75-story office towers).

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