A month hiatus from blogging? What hiatus. Lets stop living in the past.
The Lovejoy Journalism and News Literacy series of blogs has thrown up an interesting piece by New York Times photo editor Becky Hanger about how much we can trust newspaper photos.
He notes a number of altered photos that in recent years were splattered over front pages the world over.
“In the summer of 2006, the Reuters news agency moved a freelance photographer’s photo showing smoke rising from a Beirut suburb after an Israeli airstrike. Later it was revealed that the photo had been manipulated in Photoshop to increase and darken the smoke. Reuters cut ties to the photographer and removed all of his photos from its archive.”
So how can we tell a fraud? We can’t. Hanger says an editor has to trust his photographers and readers have to trust the outlet they’re reading. You know, that old chestnut.
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