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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday June 14 2020, @04:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the jornalistic-integrity dept.

Fox News runs digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle's protests, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone:

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.

Previously:
(2020-06-12) Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ)


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday June 14 2020, @05:19AM (48 children)

    Water is wet, the sky is blue, and old Satan Claws is out there, Jimmy, and he's only getting stronger.

    Seriously, is anyone remotely surprised at all? There's not a single TV news organization in the US that I would believe if they said gravity would still be working tomorrow. They all lie their asses off every single day. Sometimes it's blatant, sometimes it's by heaping spin and bias so heavily on a story that you come out thinking the opposite of the truth happened, and sometimes by what they refuse to cover even though it's both true and important. The only actual value they have is when they're providing a platform for someone who isn't as big of a liar. You know, like lobbyists or used car salesmen.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by captain normal on Sunday June 14 2020, @05:54AM

    by captain normal (2205) on Sunday June 14 2020, @05:54AM (#1007678)

    "...like lobbyists or used car salesmen..." or you know, like real estate salesman.
    But that's why they're called Faux News.

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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @05:56AM (11 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @05:56AM (#1007679)

    of course buzzard is trying to act as if fox news is no worse than anybody else

    • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @06:09AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @06:09AM (#1007681)

      They aren't any worse. They only differ in style. Same goes for the prez.

      • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @01:44PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @01:44PM (#1007749)

        More bullshit false equivalences, eh Fusty?

        How unsurprising coming from you.

        • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @05:57PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @05:57PM (#1008232)

          :-) Typical democrat... You know nothing!

          The equivalency is not false when the things are equal, you know, the same...

    • (Score: 4, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday June 14 2020, @10:23AM (6 children)

      My bad. Correction: All the others are just fine if you're a moron who likes telling the same lies they do.

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      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @08:57PM (5 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @08:57PM (#1007889)

        So your lies match up with Fox out of some amazing coincidence? Hmm, maybe stupid is a transmittable condition. Oops sorry, didn't mean to associste you with a trans word, many apologies.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @03:52AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @03:52AM (#1008004)

          Send him on a translunar injection and let the rabbits take care of him.

        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday June 15 2020, @09:08AM (3 children)

          Fox News runs stories on the immensity of my penis?

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @08:31PM (2 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @08:31PM (#1008314)

            Statistically you just called your "immense penis" fake news. #NoSurprise #CriticalThinking

            • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday June 16 2020, @01:05PM (1 child)

              Yes. I did. *Whoosh*

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              • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @09:22PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @09:22PM (#1008850)

                Intellectual laziness, your hallmark. Stupidity is a close second.

    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday June 15 2020, @03:00PM

      by Freeman (732) on Monday June 15 2020, @03:00PM (#1008144) Journal

      If you count lobbyists and car salesmen as "anybody else". Also, there's a reason why I don't watch the news. It's full of all the worst things they could think of to feature. They only report what sells, and bad news, sells. At least with an article, you can tell, if it's an opinion piece or has decent sources.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @09:19AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @09:19AM (#1007710)

    The sad part is that if any of them, and I mean any of them, suddenly made such a claim about gravity still working tomorrow, my tinfoil hat would go on. I'd instantly wonder if gravity is going to stop or something else fishy is going on. They are motivated to tell us by something, and it definitely isn't my best interests.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @12:51AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @12:51AM (#1007963)

      This is a prime example of a lack of critical thinking.

      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @02:46AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @02:46AM (#1007986)

        Critically analyzing what a new source tells you after they seemingly violate Grice's maxims regardless of the point of view or bias of the source because of an understanding that they are all ultimately motivated by self-interest that may not align with our own? If that is a lack of critical thinking, I'd hate to know what critical thinking would look like.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @05:27AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @05:27AM (#1008019)

      And if they tell you that November 3, 2020 is election day, will you stay home because it's obviously a lie?

      Or will you stay home because you don't take the responsibilities of citizenship seriously?

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @08:06AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @08:06AM (#1008043)

        No, you double check. Wouldn't be the first time a wrong date was given out by mistake [usnews.com] or by error [npr.org] or possible nefarious reasons. [cnn.com]

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Sunday June 14 2020, @11:40AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday June 14 2020, @11:40AM (#1007728)

    It's not just TV news - Miami Herald vs the Florida-Times Union (Jacksonville based) will give you complete opposite impressions of an event. Recent case in point: the COVID data scientist who got canned for insubordination... to read the Times Union story she was a hero wrongly terminated by a State which is distorting the facts of the pandemic, to read the Miami Herald version, she was a loose cannon who didn't do her job and used to stalk her boyfriend in college.

    With as much Navy / hardcore Republican influence as there is in Jacksonville, I was a bit surprised that they would apply liberal spin (or maybe it's just the truth... who knows?) Miami Herald shouldn't be a surprise though, our company got a visit from Newt Gingrich one day - just after he left the Herald building for a "non-event" touching base with the staff.

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  • (Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Sunday June 14 2020, @01:04PM (1 child)

    by TheGratefulNet (659) on Sunday June 14 2020, @01:04PM (#1007742)

    so, bsab?

    invalid argument.

    go stand in the dunce corner for an hour and think about what you did and how wrong it was.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @02:32PM (20 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @02:32PM (#1007761)

    I never really figured you for one of those "there is no truth" moral relativists.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @03:13PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @03:13PM (#1007781)

      He's the worst kind. There is no truth, unless I say there is and by God you better believe it.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday June 14 2020, @05:01PM (17 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday June 14 2020, @05:01PM (#1007835) Journal

      Whereas I'd been screaming at the top of my forum lungs from the first encounter I'd had with this guy that he was, but noooooo, no one listens to Marissa^W Cassandra. Glad people are finally starting to figure him out after, what, half a damn decade? He's a sociopath. The entire world consists of one subject (him) and multifarious objects (everyone and everything else), seen through the crushing, hellish, inescapable gravity of his own mental black hole.

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      • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @09:31PM (8 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @09:31PM (#1007901)

        To be fair, he's camouflaged by a rotating circle-jerk of about a dozen nutjobs just like him on this site. Or possibly they're all him?

        • (Score: 3, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Monday June 15 2020, @12:36AM (7 children)

          by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Monday June 15 2020, @12:36AM (#1007958)

          It's weird how often people on this site defend whatever hateful arseholery Trump does. I'm always surprised whern it happens.

          You would think someone with the intelligence to use the Internet would be clever enough to see through him, but here we are.

          Fox News is entirely the propaganda wing of the Republican Party, and always has been, it's not like they've ever pretended to be anything else either, but people still come here and try the old both sides thing.

          • (Score: 2, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday June 15 2020, @09:15AM (6 children)

            And? That's not news any more than MSNBC being the propaganda arm of the radical progs or CNN being the lead propaganda arm of the DNC.

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            • (Score: 3, Touché) by PartTimeZombie on Monday June 15 2020, @08:22PM (5 children)

              by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Monday June 15 2020, @08:22PM (#1008308)

              Have MSNBC or CNN been photoshopping pics to ensure their viewers stay angry?

              No?

              If whatabout the best defense you have for your team maybe you should have think about what you're defending.

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday June 15 2020, @09:20AM (7 children)

        You know better, why do you lie?

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        • (Score: 1, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday June 16 2020, @01:06AM (6 children)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday June 16 2020, @01:06AM (#1008419) Journal

          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.

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          • (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.

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            • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @09:25PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @09:25PM (#1008851)

              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)

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2020, @11:15AM (#1009069)

              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)

                by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday June 17 2020, @02:20PM (#1009121) Homepage Journal

                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.

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                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2020, @09:51PM (1 child)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2020, @09:51PM (#1009309)

                  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

                    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.

                    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.

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    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday June 15 2020, @09:14AM

      1) Strawman.
      2) You haven't paid much attention then.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @03:35PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @03:35PM (#1007802)

    "There's not a single TV news organization in the US that I would believe if they said gravity would still be working tomorrow."

    Really? So, just out of curiosity, where do you get your news from? I'm genuinely intrigued.

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @04:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @04:51PM (#1007834)

    I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. In the past people deliberately lied, or they unconsciously coloured what they wrote, or they struggled after the truth, well knowing that they must make many mistakes; but in each case they believed that ‘the facts’ existed and were more or less discoverable. And in practice there was always a considerable body of fact which would have been agreed to by almost everyone. If you look up the history of the last war in, for instance, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, you will find that a respectable amount of the material is drawn from German sources. A British and a German historian would disagree deeply on many things, even on fundamentals, but there would still be that body of, as it were, neutral fact on which neither would seriously challenge the other. It is just this common basis of agreement, with its implication that human beings are all one species of animal, that totalitarianism destroys. Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as ‘the truth’ exists. There is, for instance, no such thing as ‘science’. There is only ‘German science’, ‘Jewish science’ etc. The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. If the Leader says of such and such an event, ‘It never happened’ – well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five – well, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs – and after our experiences of the last few years that is not a frivolous statement.

    —George Orwell, Looking Back on the Spanish War

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday June 15 2020, @04:41PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 15 2020, @04:41PM (#1008192) Journal

    All news outlets may be bad. But to varying degrees. It is the degree of badness and distortion that matters. Not whether there is any at all.

    FOX and CNN are bad. But to very different degrees of badness.

    To state that they are all bad, is to obscure the more important point of "by how much".

    (fyi... I quit watching CNN in 2013 after their purported "coverage" of the Snowden leaks. The coverage was so completely one sided and not objective that I just quit. I almost quit a littler over a year earlier when CNN (and many others) failed to cover at all the stories on SOPA, PIPA, PROTECT-IP, etc. Only when the major web sites went dark to make the public aware of this disasterous pending legislation, did any news organization cover it. That almost, but not quite, made me stop watching CNN.

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    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday June 15 2020, @05:28PM (1 child)

      If any of them had even a shred of honesty, I'd say you have a point. At this point it's arguing over the difference between holding your hand on the stove burner when it's on 7 vs. when it's on 8 though. There is no good or even passable result to be had by watching any of them.

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      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday June 15 2020, @08:29PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 15 2020, @08:29PM (#1008311) Journal

        That might be closer to true than I'd like to think. I tend to be somewhat more optimistic. But that could be misplaced.

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