CNET compiles a nice gallery of pictures that lie. [via Lost Remote]
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August 16th, 2006 at 8:55 am
[...] (By the way, everyone and their photo editor's dog has been reading about blogger Charles Johnson at little green balls discovering doctored AP photos and related Israel-Lebanon photo-shop-type business (update: again (and here), and again and again … and CNET (via BuzzMachine) shows that fake lying pictures are not a new phenomenon.) so we're not going there for the moment. Maybe ever. And once more, we will get to all things New Assignment.net, "Nick Lemann vs. bloggers" and CJRDaily stories ASAP). [...]
August 16th, 2006 at 10:46 am
Speaking of photographic phunny buisness, check out the obfuscation over at The Guardian. Journalism professor and media critic Roy Greenslade writes that the AP explained to his satisfaction the identity of “Green Helmet Guy”: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/2006/08/green_helmet_is_a_civil_defenc.html
Sadly, The guardian turns a blind eye — is it intentional? — to the fact that Green Helmet Guy was caught in the act of staging scenes for cameras. A German TV show shows Green Helmet Guy actually off-loading a child’s body from an ambulance onto a stretcher and putting it back into an ambulance for the benefit of cameras:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vPAkc5CLgc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Foutcut%2Eblogspot%2
Ecom%2F2006%2F08%2Fndr%2Dlsst%2Ddie%2Dgrne%2Dbombe%2Dplatzen%2Ehtm
Too bad neither the AP nor The Guardian want to face the facts: they’d both been had.
August 16th, 2006 at 11:51 am
Staging photos is part of their culture. Who are we to judge them? Americans lie too!
August 16th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
[...] CNet has an interesting gallery of doctored photos–worth a look, especially given the recent Reuters brouhaha (via Buzzmachine). [...]
August 16th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
[...] CNet has an interesting gallery of doctored photos–worth a look, especially given the recent Reuters brouhaha (via Buzzmachine). [...]
August 16th, 2006 at 7:46 pm
A lie, once exposed makes suspect all past and future reports… There is no such thing as a “little bit corrupt”. The attack on Johnson and others who expose the lies only confirms that it was intentional misrepresentation.
Years of unfailing truth may diminish the lies. But that is only a “maybe”. Each mistake will be seen as a repeat of the lying and return to the old ways… Too bad the truth had such small value in the Executive Suite
August 18th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
Good article here:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/shoptalk_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003019475