On Sep 26, 2009, at 4:12 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 04:01:30PM -0400, paul stenquist wrote:
I guess that's where we disagree - I think Newsweek crossed the line
when they chose the photograph, not when they cropped out the other
people (who, as Larry has pointed out, weren't relevant to the
story).
I can't imagine they would have used the photo without the crop. It
wouldn't have made much sense. But you're right to say that the
combination of this pic and the story's subject was the most
egregious
offense. A policy that prohibits crops which change the focus or
content of a photo eliminates this kind of shenanigans.
Just out of curiousity, is there any connection between the photo and
the quote? Was that the shot they had from that interview? Or did
they go through five years of archives to find it?
Based on the photographer's comments, the photo had nothing to do with
the interview. They probably found it in their archives.
Is it possible that that was just the only shot that they had of that
interview, or the clearest one, and the editor innocently cropped out
all of the extraneous noise?
Not realistically. But that's why many news organizations, prohibit a
crop that changes the content of a photo.
Or could it be possible that one person chose the photo, another
cropped it, and someone else chose the quote? Fred's doing the
article, calls up Sally and says, "get me a picture of Cheney from the
interview last week and send it down to Sue in layout for cropping".
Only if the pub was the Podunk Post. Newsweek editors know exactly
what they're doing.
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