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Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests

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

DeathMonkey writes:

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: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday June 15 2020, @12:23AM (1 child)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Monday June 15 2020, @12:23AM (#1007948)

    You may have failed to take into account the mental gymnastics needed to read a story like this, understand the implications and still tell yourself that Fox News is actually a news organisation.

    As long as a Republican is in the White House, they don't care.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 15 2020, @02:08AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 15 2020, @02:08AM (#1007973) Journal

    the mental gymnastics needed to read a story like this

    I'll let aside the unreasonable expectation of having one RTFA (that's amateurish; well, Olympic level of mental gymnast amateur, but still nor a prostrat) but this is why I dropped my expectation to "take a guess" rather than "know" or "think" (grin)

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