Betsy's Page
HOME
Comments from an AP history
and government teacher in Raleigh, NC.
e-mail betsynewmark AT gmail.com
Commissions earned from selling items through Amazon will go towards buying materials for my classes. Thank you.
Site Feed
Betsy neither necessarily uses,
nor endorses,
the products advertised on this site.
The truth about Avesil
Cheap Hosting
Atlanta Bankruptcy Attorney
Dallas Bankruptcy Attorney
Wikio
Get exclusive travel deals and book discount cheap flights
Online Bachelors Degree
Comments from an AP history
and government teacher in Raleigh, NC.
e-mail betsynewmark AT gmail.com
Commissions earned from selling items through Amazon will go towards buying materials for my classes. Thank you.
Site Feed
Sunday, August 06, 2006
Picture-Doctoring at Reuters
Michelle Malkin has all the links to the latest story of media manipulation. Little Green Footballs uncovered a doctored Reuters photo showing smoke over Beirut after being hit by the IDF. Apparently, the photographer cloned more smoke into the picture to make it look more dramatic. The Shape of Days has more on how the photo was doctored. Reuters has admitted that the picture was doctored and withdrawn it and suspended the photographer. You need to click over and look at the photo itself and the demonstrations of how obviously it had been Photoshopped. It really is an amazing black eye for Reuters that they let this slip through.
Ace pointed out four days ago that this is going (or already has)to become a problem for the MSM which have come to rely on foreign stringers, particularly for photos, and they're setting themselves up for a major scandal.The American media is setting itself up for a massive scandal. One day, it will in fact come out that they are guilty of willful blindness and a deliberate avoidance of asking their stringers tough questions to maintain their own plausible deniability.What prescience!
And they'll have to answer some hard questions, such as, "If you're so vigilant against being 'used' by the American government for its 'propaganda,' why are you so blithely nonchalant about being worse-used by America's enemies?"
Many of Steven Glass' colleagues looked back and wondered how they'd been fooled by his fabrications for so long. Apart from the outlandishness of some of his stories, he also had an uncanny knack for getting the Killer Quote that tied together a piece or summed it up in one pithy, bullet-point sentence. We should have known no one gets that lucky so consistently, they said later.
The American media seems to be an employing a possible Army of Steven Glasses, and yet they're more than willing to pretend they don't know what's going on so long as those suspiciously-dramatic front-page pictures keep coming back from the foreign stringers.
0 comments
Comments:
Michelle Malkin has all the links to the latest story of media manipulation. Little Green Footballs uncovered a doctored Reuters photo showing smoke over Beirut after being hit by the IDF. Apparently, the photographer cloned more smoke into the picture to make it look more dramatic. The Shape of Days has more on how the photo was doctored. Reuters has admitted that the picture was doctored and withdrawn it and suspended the photographer. You need to click over and look at the photo itself and the demonstrations of how obviously it had been Photoshopped. It really is an amazing black eye for Reuters that they let this slip through.
Ace pointed out four days ago that this is going (or already has)to become a problem for the MSM which have come to rely on foreign stringers, particularly for photos, and they're setting themselves up for a major scandal.
0 comments
Michelle Malkin has all the links to the latest story of media manipulation. Little Green Footballs uncovered a doctored Reuters photo showing smoke over Beirut after being hit by the IDF. Apparently, the photographer cloned more smoke into the picture to make it look more dramatic. The Shape of Days has more on how the photo was doctored. Reuters has admitted that the picture was doctored and withdrawn it and suspended the photographer. You need to click over and look at the photo itself and the demonstrations of how obviously it had been Photoshopped. It really is an amazing black eye for Reuters that they let this slip through.
Ace pointed out four days ago that this is going (or already has)to become a problem for the MSM which have come to rely on foreign stringers, particularly for photos, and they're setting themselves up for a major scandal.
The American media is setting itself up for a massive scandal. One day, it will in fact come out that they are guilty of willful blindness and a deliberate avoidance of asking their stringers tough questions to maintain their own plausible deniability.What prescience!
And they'll have to answer some hard questions, such as, "If you're so vigilant against being 'used' by the American government for its 'propaganda,' why are you so blithely nonchalant about being worse-used by America's enemies?"
Many of Steven Glass' colleagues looked back and wondered how they'd been fooled by his fabrications for so long. Apart from the outlandishness of some of his stories, he also had an uncanny knack for getting the Killer Quote that tied together a piece or summed it up in one pithy, bullet-point sentence. We should have known no one gets that lucky so consistently, they said later.
The American media seems to be an employing a possible Army of Steven Glasses, and yet they're more than willing to pretend they don't know what's going on so long as those suspiciously-dramatic front-page pictures keep coming back from the foreign stringers.
Comments:
Post a Comment
