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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.
Previously:
(2020-06-12) Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ)
(Score: 5, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Sunday June 14 2020, @11:29AM (10 children)
Well, my first reaction is "FOX News" is anything but a news outlet. Calling FOX's political cheerleading "News" is something like the Soviet State newspaper being called "Truth."
at this point, I would hope that the only people being fooled are the ones who want to be fooled. Sadly, that's a really large chunk of the population, but with "flip-flop" videos so easy to make: where FOX says one thing about Obama's actions and then says the exact opposite about T(he)rump's identical actions in identical scenarios... how hard is it to spot the bias? The only thing I find slightly entertaining is when FOX gets critical of T(he)rump - which is exposing schisms in the party.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @04:45PM (9 children)
MNBS and CNN are anything but News outlets either.
(Score: 2) by Booga1 on Sunday June 14 2020, @08:00PM (8 children)
CNN used to be decent. MSNBC was never great, but at least you could see the spin pretty easily.
A while back I went to CNN's website and what a shocker. It looked like Buzzfeed took a shit on half the page. It was unbelievably disgusting. It's only gotten worse since then. Now they mix the hype and the news and the headlines are so badly written I can't tell the difference anymore.
I understood how shitty Fox News was for many years. However, once I disconnected from watching TV, I completely missed the point where CNN took a nose dive into the clickbait bucket and turned into a caricature of what they were.
Local news is still keeping the clickbait and real news separate, but who knows how long that will last...
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @08:12PM
That assumes there is any local news. In a lot of places it doesn't exist anymore.
Lucky for me, I live in a place with multiple local news outlets, including a 24 hour news channel, multiple local newspapers and innumerable local news sites and blogs specifically focused on my city.
Most people, unfortunately, have to rely on national broadcasters like Sinclair [wikipedia.org] who don't have any local focus, and who force their perspective [npr.org] on those they are supposed to serve, and ignore local issues.
(Score: 2, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 15 2020, @12:24AM (3 children)
RT is entertaining - english language news published by Russia.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @03:06PM (2 children)
There. FTFY.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday June 16 2020, @12:21AM (1 child)
What talking-head highly produced "news" program isn't propaganda?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 16 2020, @02:15PM
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @01:04AM (1 child)
I feel it was some time between Ted Turner selling his network to the owners of Big Entertainment and 2011, when I noticed an odd conformity of opinion and "social forming" in media outlets.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @01:21AM
Pretty soon after Baby Bush got elected, 9/11 happened and the MSM quickly shifted to supporting the government and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Bush's later years, MSNBC turned opposition. Obama's election didn't change the tone too much; Obama himself had a rocky relation with the press, restricting interviews and press conferences.
Something happened afterward. The story about spy money being used for propaganda aimed at Americans perhaps?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @02:48PM
It started earlier than that. The moment I realized it was when I caught Robin Meade because my wife liked watching her. Every few stories she would interject her opinions about a story.
Bias always exists to some degree. But when the reporters or anchors feel free to interject their personal opinions one it is no longer news.