the right-wing practise of "journalism." It's been going on so very looooong.
Spanish-Language Paper Altered Photos
By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ
Associated Press Writer
July 28, 2006, 4:13 PM EDT
MIAMI -- The Miami Herald's Spanish-language sister paper acknowledged Friday
that it manipulated two photos to make it appear that two Cuban police officers
were ignoring prostitutes gesturing to a tourist.
The image, which appeared June 25 in El Nuevo Herald, combined two previously
published pictures -- a 1994 photo of the officers by El Nuevo Herald photographer
Roberto Koltun, and a 1998 picture of the women and tourist by John Moore,
then a photographer for the Associated Press.
Executive Editor Humberto Castello said the newspaper failed to explain to readers
that the picture did not depict a real event. AP guidelines prohibit altering or
manipulating the content of a photograph.
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El Nuevo Herald said it will offer a seminar to its photographers, graphic artists
and editors on ethics and design.
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From another post on the same DU thread:
Clues to Deception: In the doorway, there is a sharp variation in light between the right and left sides. Note the difference in perspective between the police officers and prostitutes. The police officers cast shadows. The prostitutes don't.
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Listen Up, McClatchy
The most-honored Spanish newspaper in the United States is ethically challenged
By Chuck Strouse
Article Published Jul 27, 2006
A striking, five-column color photo was splashed across the Sunday, June 25 edition of El Nuevo Herald. It showed four spandex-clad prostitutes in Cuba hailing a foreign tourist. Just a few feet away, two policemen conversed with a little girl and a woman. The headline: "Hookers: The Sad Meat of the American Dollar."
The cops obviously didn't care about the working girls — a clear sign of the hypocritically wanton ways of Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Problem is, the picture was a fake. Indeed it was just the kind of manipulated combination of two images that prompted the Los Angeles Times to fire staff photographer Brian Walski in 2003. Walski, you may recall, altered two photos of an American soldier to make them appear as one, more dramatic image. Several papers unknowingly published the combo on their front pages, and Thom McGuire, a Hartford Courant assistant managing editor, said the incident made him "sick to my stomach."
El Nuevo's sin was worse. Its image — on page 27A — appeared with the caption "The government has proven incapable of confronting the dramatic phenomenon of prostitution" and a story about a book on Cuba's working girls by author Amir Valle.
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http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/listen-up-mcclatchy-6336319
https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2420339
Nice try, as always.
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