Posted on 08/08/2006 5:06:13 PM PDT by llevrok
UNDATED -- Hajj also worked as a freelancer for The Associated Press from 2003-2005. the AP was reviewing all 193 of his images in its photo archives to verify their authenticity. On Monday, the AP recalled a photo that it had transmitted Sunday night of a worker in Alaska examining an oil pipeline. In that photo, the worker appeared to have four hands, and there were other elements such as a section of pipe that appeared to have a double image. Lyon said the distortions were unintentional and resulted from careless use by the photographer of a software feature in Photoshop called a "cloning tool." The photographer had used the feature in an attempt to clear up a glitch in the picture caused by a dirty sensor, the part of a digital camera that records the image. AP's ethical guidelines permit use of "cloning" in limited circumstances to clean up dirt or scratches from an image. Lyon said the error was not caught by either the photographer or the editing desk before it was transmitted on the AP's photo service. He said the company was reviewing disciplinary actions against the photographer and other parties involved. Last month, The Charlotte Observer said it had terminated one of its photographers, Patrick Schneider, after finding that he had altered the colors in a photo of a firefighter on a ladder. Kenny Irby, visual journalism group leader at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla., said all three instances show that news organizations need to be more careful in how they handle images. "There has to be an editing component that ensures the accuracy of the content," Irby said. "It's not just the photographer that should be examined, but the overall process of the news organization that must be held accountable."
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"Fauxtography!"
excellent!
Sweet.
Wow, my head is spinning. At 7:19, I posted the joke that the fauxtog was "making a statement" and there is a thread started at 7:22 with a quote from Reuters saying their fired fauxtog was "not making a statement."
Different news service, different fired fauxtog, but I just love when that happens. Ask a question on FR and the media who doesn't read here, ha ha, answers or rebuts with their own spin within a matter of minutes.
He'll just change his name to Mohammed Fakaphotofatjihadi and keep selling them to Reuters.
Sweet. Timestamped.
And they trash Drudge because he has no editors.........sheesh!
Fauxtography --- invented by Charles Johnson LGF
it says so in wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauxtography
ROFL!!!!
Perfect term for this sort of dishonesty.
Add this word to the English language.
Noted...thanks FC...
FOTO-ROOTER
Call Foto-Reuter, that's the name, and away go photos down the drain... Foto-Reuter
Pooh. Misspelled Reuters.
FOTO-REUTERS
Call Foto-Reuters, that's the name, and away go photos down the drain... Foto-Reuters
that's where I saw it, LGF
What is really killing these ‘fools’ is that they have yet to realize that they can’t get away with it anymore. When it finally hits them, hopefully, it will be too late. Viva! Modern technology …
Our media would rather present the lie and offer a pretend oops. The lie will be remembered and the apology will not.
Hah! It's more likely that they'll make this guy into a martyr - hounded to death by the bloggers for a little innocent photoshopping.
Actually, the broadcast TV news organizations and the liberal-dominated newspapers are feeling the effects. People are tuning out and cancelling subscriptions.
It takes discipline to give up the positive contributions from these sources but it is essential if they are to get the message. My wife very much misses the local news that we no longer get because we won't pay people to lie to us by subscribing to our local liberal rag.
I recommend this course to anyone who wishes to support real change in this area.
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