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Reuters is offering up an explanation on how that bathroom note photo of President Bush asking for a bathroom break made its way to the wires.

As you recall from yesterday, Bush wrote a note to Condi Rice during a United Nations Security Council meeting and, well, the rest is history. Or bathroom humor, you decide. But it wasn't, Reuters assures us, a biased attack on Bush.

The white parts of the picture were overexposed, so a Reuters processor used Photoshop to burn down the note. This is a standard practice for news photos, Hershorn says, and the picture was not manipulated in any other way.

Which is the professional way of saying "George Bush did not write 'I have to go poopie really bad, Con-da-lee-za.'"

Dear Reuters

In case you're wondering why most folks in media kinda, uh, laugh at ya'll, it's because of stories like this.

Richard Desmond, the wealthy one-time adult magazine publisher known in the tabloids as Dirty Des, said on Monday he would launch an American version of his weekly star cavalcade OK! in early August and write a $100 million (57.3 million pounds) check to get it started.

Monday, he announced this? Now we thought the porn mogul had made his plans well aware for months.

xoxo
Jossip