On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:48 AM, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > Newsweek's crop is unethical. Most news sources wouldn't allow it. It > changed the message of the photo. At the NY Times, minor cropping for > clarity is okay, but almost all photo alteration is strictly prohibited.
It's not clear to me. If the story were reportage of an event and the photo were of the event, photo-editing to mislead about the event is clearly out-of-bounds (judicious cropping to remove extraneous material less so). In this case, they just wanted a picture of Cheney and they wanted it to look bloodthirsty, so they cropped something in the stock inventory. Not sure I see the problem, unless they're trying to pretend to be neutral about Cheney, something that very few people on either side try to pretend any more. -T -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
