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What Have They Done to Miss Piggy?

I used to work at an ad agency, so I'm a bit numb to the way images are manipulated to make us feel certain ways so we'll buy things, and the way those manipulated images are used to manipulate us into feeling certain other ways so we'll buy more things. I like to think I'm smart enough to recognize what's real and what's not, and, and I don't let it faze me. But then today I saw this, and I'm outraged: They have completely airbrushed out Miss Piggy's nostrils. And my mind is reeling with questions. First among them - WHY?! Why is there suddenly a need to digitally manipulate a face that has had a successful modelling career for decades - with those very same nose holes? Do they…
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