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The Associated Press Eliminates Digitally Altered Photo
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| July 16, 2004
Posted on 07/16/2004 2:18:30 PM PDT by nuconvert
The Associated Press Eliminates Digitally Altered Photo
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - The Associated Press inadvertently moved a digitally altered photograph of flooding in China on Thursday and advised its members on Friday not to use it. The photo showed residents of China's Shaanxi province trying to get through flooded streets on tricycles and bicycles.
Alerted by a reader in Finland who had seen the picture in a newspaper, editors checked and it became clear that the picture had been manipulated to show the flood waters were higher than they actually were.
The AP's policy is not to transmit photos that have been digitally altered, except in circumstances where it cannot be avoided, said Santiago Lyon, director of photography.
The AP sent an advisory to subscribers of its photo service that the photo should not be used, and killed it from its system. The advisory moved more than 24 hours after the picture had been sent.
The photographer, a stringer who was not identified, will no longer be permitted to supply the AP with pictures, Lyon said.
"Nothing is more important than our journalistic integrity and moving digitally altered photographs clashes with that," Lyon said.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ap; chinaflooding; photo; woops
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posted on
07/16/2004 2:18:35 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
To: nuconvert
"Nothing is more important than our journalistic integrity..."
LOL!
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posted on
07/16/2004 2:18:55 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Some people can tell time by looking at the sun, but I've never been able to make out the numbers)
To: Registered
Ping. Or, did you already know about this? ;O)
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posted on
07/16/2004 2:20:49 PM PDT
by
newgeezer
(Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary. You have the right to be wrong.)
To: nuconvert
Photographers are generally held to a higher standard than reporters.
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posted on
07/16/2004 2:22:20 PM PDT
by
MediaMole
(Microsoft math: 1 inch = 2.4 centimeters)
To: nuconvert; Registered
Some local math geniuses at Carnegie Mellon (or is it Dusquene?) have come up with a program to detect altered digital photography. They'll make a heap of money off of it.
See what you've done?
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posted on
07/16/2004 2:23:43 PM PDT
by
Glenn
(The two keys to character: 1) Learn how to keep a secret. 2) ...)
To: nuconvert
Photographer, after hearing of his ban: "Well, there is always the New York Times"
To: Always Right
I think he was spotted at Reuters........
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posted on
07/16/2004 2:29:10 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Some people can tell time by looking at the sun, but I've never been able to make out the numbers)
To: nuconvert
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posted on
07/16/2004 2:32:00 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(Vote Bush. He's Earned It.)
To: ChadGore
CAPTION: "Hey...who took off the training wheels!!!!"
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posted on
07/16/2004 2:34:44 PM PDT
by
JimVT
To: nuconvert
The AP's policy is not to transmit photos that have been digitally altered, except in circumstances where it cannot be avoided......or when they do it themselves.
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posted on
07/16/2004 2:37:05 PM PDT
by
EllaMinnow
(Re-elect Bush - because Kerry just doesn't have the time.)
To: ChadGore
I AM NOT A DORK!
Ignore that center kickstand, the rice burning foreign made bike, and the dork in the dorky clothes.
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posted on
07/16/2004 2:45:34 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(Vote Bush. He's Earned It.)
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