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