I guess I don't see the issue. No, no news photo should be doctored. Not if it calls itself a news photo. But if it doesn't materially change the story... what's the point and why the outcry?
On 8/7/06, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, so far, this has received fairly extensive coverage. > > CNN, MSNBC and Fox having been running the story about every 3 hours, > the blogger at littlegreenfootballs has been all over the air, Reuters > has pulled every photo by the guy pending review, they have already > admitted to finding at least 2 other doctored photos (although cnn > only showed one, a picture of an Israeli jet firing a flare, and he > copied the flare two more times for a false total of 3), and the news > stations and bloggers are talking about the photos he shot in Qana, > how they look to be "staged", and whether this differs from direct > photo manipulation in any meaningful way. > > Now, I have to admit I am a little bit unclear as to the motives of > this @ss-clown. > > A small piece of my mind says this is somehow politically motivated, > but if so, he is an idiot. The pictures he digitally doctored are not > any worse in their doctored version than the original was. > > The rest of my mind says he was doing this as a regular human being > (read weak selfish jerk), and doctored and staged the stuff to get his > photos bought, higher rates for the photos, purely greedy personal > motives that could (and probably do) happen all the time. > > The political side I see is that Reuters appears to pay less editorial > attention to stories against the US and Israel, and are willing to let > more "propeganda" slide if it in the "against" column rather than the > "for" column. > > Over the next few days, we will see if Reuters is serious, and if it > fires the guy for good after the dust settles, or if they forgive him > later, and reinstate him. For me, that will be the test of whether > Reuters was complicate or just lazy and foolish. > > > On 8/5/06, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been against the media when it comes to truth for a long time and I > love it when they prove me right. Look at this official reuters photo: > > > http://photos.reuters.com/news/newsPhotoPresentation.aspx?type=photoSearch&imageID=2006-08-05T193003Z_01_NOOTR_RTRIDSP_0_NEWS-MIDEAST-COL.XML > > > > Looks like Israel is just blowing away any part of Beirut that they > want. Look at these analysis of the photo and tell me again what's > happening: > > > http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=21956_Reuters_Doctoring_Photos_from_Beirut&only > > > > As with many other analysis of the media's 'attention' to the middle > east, there's a real question of truth here, or lack of it. At least that's > what it looks like to me. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:212866 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
