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Fox News published digitally altered and misleading photos on stories about Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in what photojournalism experts called a clear violation of ethical standards for news organizations.
As part of a package of stories Friday about the zone, where demonstrators have taken over several city blocks on Capitol Hill after Seattle police abandoned the East Precinct, Fox's website for much of the day featured a photo of a man standing with a military-style rifle in front of what appeared to be a smashed retail storefront.
The image was actually a mashup of photos from different days, taken by different photographers — it was done by splicing a Getty Images photo of an armed man, who had been at the protest zone June 10, with other images from May 30 of smashed windows in downtown Seattle. Another altered image combined the gunman photo with yet another image, making it appear as though he was standing in front of a sign declaring "You are now entering Free Cap Hill."
[...] The image, as displayed on the Fox News website, was spliced with other photos, including a photo of a smashed retail storefront in May, making it look as though the scene was all playing out concurrently in the autonomous zone. "It is definitely Photoshopped," confirmed Ryder. "To use a photo out of context in a journalistic setting like that seems unethical."
[...] "I think it's disgraceful propaganda and terribly misrepresentative of documentary journalism in times like this, when truth-telling and accountability is so important," said Kenny Irby, a photojournalism ethics educator and consultant. "There is no attribution. There is no acknowledgment of the montage, and it's terribly misleading."
Akili Ramsess, executive director of the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), said ethical standards clearly prohibit alteration of photos in news accounts.
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(2020-06-12) Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday June 15 2020, @09:20AM (7 children)
You know better, why do you lie?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday June 16 2020, @01:06AM (6 children)
That's not a lie. Sorry if the truth hurts. If you think it's painful now, just *wait* until you die. The "light" will be Hellfire for you, and you'll burn until all your bullshit gets vaporized.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday June 16 2020, @01:12PM (5 children)
Lying out your teeth and saying I'm going to hell? Yep, you're really butthurt over getting your narrative torn up this time.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @09:25PM
Narrative? You mean the simple observation that you are a narcissistic asshole with massive flaws you love to ignore?
Heh, have you noticed the uptick in propaganda campaigns here?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2020, @11:15AM (3 children)
You're being criticized this time because your "both sides do it" narrative is quite misleading.
Let's look at an effort to objectively analyze the quality and bias of news outlets [adfontesmedia.com]. The fact is, Fox News rates below MSNBC and CNN.
In terms of reliability, let's look at individual shows on Fox News [adfontesmedia.com] and compare them with CNN [adfontesmedia.com] and MSNBC [adfontesmedia.com]. Neither CNN nor MSNBC have anything that is nearly as unreliable as Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News.
To be clear, many of the articles posted on Fox News' website have a high degree of factual content, much like what you get from NBC or CNN. However, you were talking about TV news, for which there is no equivalency between the content on Fox News versus other networks. For example, Anderson Cooper and Chris Cuomo have shows at the same time as Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, respectively. Let's be clear, most of what you get on any of those shows is analysis and opinion, with limited news content. Yet the reliability of Cooper and Cuomo is much higher than what you'll get from Carlson and Hannity.
So let's drop the false equivalency that both sides are guilty. There's a significant difference between the reliability of the content on Fox News versus CNN and MSNBC. If you're going to post misleading comments, you should expect to be criticized for doing so.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday June 17 2020, @02:20PM (2 children)
Nothing false about it. You might be able to call comparing a $-2 bank balance to a $-200 false equivalency but calling $-65521 and $-65535 pretty much the same is completely legit.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2020, @09:51PM (1 child)
That might have a bit more merit if Fox News didn't have Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson on in prime time and replaced them with people who don't spread misinformation and conspiracy theories. I will readily admit that Anderson Cooper, Chris Cuomo, and especially Don Lemon are quite biased. However, they don't sink to the level of misinformation. Neither do people like Rachel Maddow over on MSNBC. And Brian Williams' show has a higher degree of factual reporting, perhaps because he's a former news anchor instead of a pundit. Pretending that Fox News is no worse than MSNBC and CNN ignores that two of their highly rated prime time hosts have a track record of spreading misinformation on their shows. I also didn't include the NewsMax and OAN cable channels, which are considerably worse than Fox News. While the media bias chart puts OAN and NewsMax above Fox News, they're evaluating the content on their website, which doesn't contain the level of misinformation in their TV shows.
While you can find some alternative sources that spread conspiracy theories and misinformation on the left, they don't have the notoriety and level of influence that the likes of QAnon and InfoWars have on the right. There is considerably more misinformation online from the right than from the left, particularly in places like YouTube. BitChute was created specifically because right wingers and white supremacists wanted a place to spread their misinformation after getting deplatformed by YouTube. The right wingers spreading misinformation have considerably more followers and have far more reach than any equivalent on the left.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday June 18 2020, @12:19PM
Yes, they absolutely do. Whether you're intentionally deceiving people with doctored images or doing it by using a narrow shot to make a protest of a couple dozen look like streets packed full of people, refusing to cover things that run counter to your narrative at all, or covering stories that have no merit whatsoever to them all day for months while trying to act like you're just covering what's going on instead of being actively complicit in the deception? Yeah, that doesn't matter. Intentional deception is intentional deception. And it's not like CNN hasn't been busted running doctored images or doctoring images or footage themselves before. You only need to look back to its coverage of Bernie last year to find that.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.