On Sep 26, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
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
Ethical newspapers at least try to be neutral when reporting news.
Sometimes they fail, but real journalism demands even-handedness,
regardless of the subject. The editorial page is the proper place for
opinion. New magazines purport to be equally pure. In this case,
Newsweek was out of bounds.
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