At 11:38 AM 8/14/01, you wrote:
> > examples I gave
> > above, there is certainly a difference in news coverage (particularly
> > local, but also national) between the two papers: in Birmingham, the
> > _News_ is noticeably more conservative than the
> > _Post-Herald_, and in SLC,
> > the _Deseret News_ is the LDS Church newspaper while the
> > _Trib_ is the
> > Gentile paper. Admittedly, many educated people living in
> > the area read
> > _both_ papers in order to get both slants (as do people in Denver and
> > Atlanta, but it's been long enough since I read those papers
> > regularly that
> > I can't speak to the present slant of their news content).
>
>Having been a 'Gentile' behind the 'Zion' curtain, I would strongly argue
>that the issue is related to censorship.
Certainly you couldn't have anything like this in mind:
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Deseret News' Dean Photo Editing Makes Worldwide News
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH -- A single cigarette is world famous. In a recent
edition of the Deseret News, owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, actor James Dean's photograph appeared without his
customary cigarette. The manipulation violated newspaper policy against
changing photographs, said managing editor Rick Hall and a clarification ran
the following week, but news reports of the error have appeared in hundreds
of newspapers around the world, even as far away as Malaysia, and, to the
News' embarrassment, made the trade publication Editor & Publisher.
The picture, which fills nearly a quarter of the front page of the August 3
Weekend section, accompanied a story on a television movie about Dean's
life. Hall said he and editor John Hughes were concerned that the cigarette
projecting from Dean's mouth into the story's text was too striking a focal
point and asked the staff to do something about it, thinking they would find
a tobacco-free photo. Either due to a misunderstanding or tight deadline,
the photo was digitally altered. "Our policy is very firm. We don't mess
around with the content of pictures, and this went against that. There's no
two ways around that," Hall said.
Source:
'Deseret News' Nixes Dean's Cigarette
Editor & Publisher (AP) 10Aug01 B3
http://209.11.43.220/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1007445
By Hannah Wolfson, AP Business Writer
M.E. Apologizes For Photo Alteration
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