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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: 1) by Fragholio on Monday June 15 2020, @03:44AM (2 children)

    by Fragholio (6822) on Monday June 15 2020, @03:44AM (#1008003)

    I'm glad someone other than me remembers that one. Ever forward, Mr. Determined!

    Also, if "fake news" is so important to call out, why hasn't Trump called this one out? I'm being serious.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @05:23AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @05:23AM (#1008018)

    Also, if "fake news" is so important to call out, why hasn't Trump called this one out? I'm being serious.

    I'll give you a serious answer then. Trump doesn't "call this one out" because Trump doesn't actually call out "fake news." Trump calls out what he *calls* fake news. What he calls out is almost always generally factual reporting about stuff that reflects negatively on Donald Trump or were spun in a way he doesn't happen to like.

    Note the definition of "Fake News" [c-span.org] I posted earlier (the best definition of fake news I've heard):

    [Fake news] means a lie, deliberately concocted, from whole cloth, seeded out into the mediasphere through the Internet or through other willing minions out there, to pollute the public debate. Intentionally, knowingly a lie. It is not a bias story. It is not an erroneous story. It is not an error that can be retracted. It is not a story that was spun in a way you happen to not like. None of that is fake news. Fake news is an intentional lie, created to mislead people and placed out into the information spheres so that you will find it.

    See the difference? Trump doesn't call out actual fake news, he calls stuff that's *not* fake news 'fake news'.

    As such, it's no surprise that he doesn't call this out -- because he pretty much *never* calls out actual fake news. Make sense?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @08:20AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @08:20AM (#1008045)

      Alternative facts?