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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @03:37PM (1 child)
fine people hoax. They dragged that one on for so long. ALL you have to do is watch the next 30 seconds of that speech and know what he said. Out of context is easy.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." - Cardinal Richelieu
Out of context is the bread and butter of these organizations.
False equivalence hardly. They both are the same type of 'newsertainment'. Have been for years. They serve entertainment. Take for example the riots/protests. Does CNN report on the 180 businesses burned to the ground in MPLS? The hundreds of people now out of jobs because of that? Or do they focus on something else? They are drawing your eyes away from the real story for the one they want to tell. It is a very old trick used by story writers to cover up plot holes. Fox on the other hand is focusing on the LARP going on in WA thinking it is the end of the world. Yet they ignore that we have borderline militarized huge swaths of our police force and have in many ways stripped them on accountability.
People like to pick sides in a fight usually. But both 'sides' here are acting the total loon jobs. CNN more than Fox and Fox was already bat shit cra-cra.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @03:15AM
"fine people hoax."
I'll just leave this [youtu.be] right here (with all the *smirk* "context" you could ever hope for).
"They dragged that one on for so long. ALL you have to do is watch the next 30 seconds of that speech and know what he said. Out of context is easy."
Or maybe people saw what he said--in context--and concluded that he has a hard time unequivocally calling out neo-nazis.