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StinkyJournalism Media Picks
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Fake photo of University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban exposed by Birmingham newspaper
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 20, 2010 07:42 am EST
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| On the left, see Dorothy Davidson's doctored campaign photo, which Photoshopped Davidson into the original photo on the right, of Alabama football coach Nick Saban and his wife found on his charity's web site. (Credit: Birmingham News, Nick's Kids) |
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StinkyJournalism often writes critically of news organizations for letting fake photos slip through editors and make it into print or online publication.
But, Alabama's Birmingham News skeptically approached a photo that implied a political endorsement and outed the fakery. StinkyJournalism has written to Birmingham News writer Anita Debro for more information about the newspaper's discovery.
The campaign for Bessemer mayoral...Go to full story
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Chinese magazine publishes plagiarized & doctored photo
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 18, 2010 06:06 am EST
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| Compare for yourself: Hou Xie's photo is on top. The image from a stock photo gallery is below. The faked photo (top) adds papers on the water's surface and is rotated (flopped) horizontally when compared with the original stock photo. (Credit: China.org.cn) |
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Another prize-winning Chinese photo has been branded a fake. This photo, submitted by Hou Xie from Hunan Province, bears an incriminating similarity to a stock photo and was published in August's issue of Chinese Photography magazine.
China's Global Times reported that Huang Liangqing, a China Photographers Association expert, looked into the claims and found that "Tomorrow's Reality" was a copy of the original stock photo. But, Hou...Go to full story
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Epoch Times Claims Chinese Govt Behind Fake Photo It Published
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 16, 2010 07:35 am EST
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| See above an AFP/Getty Image of the actual Nanjing disaster. Independent news outlet The Epoch Times claims that the Chinese government provided it with an inaccurate photo of the disaster. (Credit: AFP/Getty Images/Epoch Times) |
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In a recent news story, independent news outlet The Epoch Times accused the Chinese government of attempting to discredit its reporting and suppress media coverage of a late July factory explosion.
The Epoch Times is an online and print newspaper considered critical of the Chinese government. It is based in New York with reporters around the world and its website says that it is a privately held media company.
The newspaper was...Go to full story
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Nature photo contest winning image plagiarized, doctored
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
July 29, 2010 06:17 am EST
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| Compare for yourself: On the left, Ren Shichen's photo and on the right, Zhang Ziping's image, which won the Clean Water Alliance photo contest.(Credit: Prison Photography) |
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A Chinese man plagiarized and altered another man's image to win a nature photo contest this month, Global Times reported July 20.
Zhang Ziping won first place in a Beijing Clean Water Alliance photo contest July 5, but the person who actually took the picture, Ren Shichen, saw and recognized his image as the prize winner.
The image is of a few people walking along a mountainous path. "Local villagers at that time had...Go to full story
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Dallas News reporter finds doctored photo in Getty Images collection
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
July 26, 2010 07:16 am EST
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| After a photo editor at The Dallas News contacted Getty Images, a "kill notice" was quickly added to the photo. (Credit: Dallas News) |
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Guy Reynolds, a photo editor at The Dallas News, wrote July 18 about his discovery that a Getty Images photo was doctored.
Reynolds wrote that while looking for a picture of golfer Matt Bettencourt to accompany a story, he noticed "two versions of that particular moment" when Bettencourt had played the 11th hole at the Reno-Tahoe Open tournament.
Initially, Reynolds wrote that he thought the two pictures were taken by different...Go to full story
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Fauxtography Classic: Famous World War II Photo Staged, Manipulated
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
July 24, 2010 05:42 am EST
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| On the left, see the original - and staged - photo of the Reichstag. The version on the right is the manipulated version of the staged version. (Credit: FamousPictures.org) |
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A Soviet World War II photo inspired by the famous Iwo Jima flag raising image was both manipulated and staged, bloggers write.
"Symbolizing Soviet victory and revenge; not only did [the photographer] immortalize the moment: he created it," Dean Lucas wrote on FamousPictures.org about the photo, called the Reichstag photo.
Lucas wrote that Soviet war photographer Yevgeny Khaldei was "on the front lines" with the Russian...Go to full story
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Bloggers Discovered BP Doctored 3 Photos
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
July 23, 2010 07:08 am EST
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| Gizmodo pointed out one of the tip-offs in the third and most recent Photoshopped image posted by BP. (Credit: Gizmodo) |
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Bloggers on Americablog and Gizmodo have discovered that at least three recently released photos from BP were photoshopped.
The Washington Post wrote July 21 that the Gawker-owned Gizmodo blog had been tipped off that a photo taken from a helicopter was altered. White space around a pilot in the picture indicated the photo had been doctored.
Gizmodo wrote July 21 "Obviously there are bigger fish to fry when it comes to BP. But every time...Go to full story
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Lance Armstrong's real T-shirt doesn't curse, Outside Magazine uses Photoshop
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
June 19, 2010 09:05 am EST
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| Lance Armstrong tweeted his complaint about Outside magazine photoshopping a fake logo on his plain T-shirt--complete with abbreviated cursewords--for its cover. Outside defends itself by pointing to a small font disclosure on the cover--see small text circles in red and enlarged in yellow box above. (Credit: Outside magazine) |
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Outside magazine's July issue features a cover image of seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong donning a T-shirt reading: "38. BFD." (FYI 38 is Armstrong's age and BFD stands for Big F****** Deal, according to the Urban Dictionary.)
But, Armstrong wasn't wearing that T-shirt in the photo shoot. The 38 and the BFD were Photoshopped.
Stylelist.com reported that Armstrong "is pretty P.O.'d about his appearance on the July...Go to full story
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Reuters called out for editing two photos of attack on Mavi Marmara
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
June 15, 2010 05:39 am EST
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| Note the three circled elements of the original photograph published by AP--weapons and blood--are cropped from the Reuters' version of the same photograph.
(Credit: Little Green Footballs, with StinkyJournalism's emphasis) |
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Bloggers and news sites are calling out Reuters for its two cropped photos from the Mavi Marmara, the Turkish ship attacked by Israeli commandos on May 31. As of June 14, Reuters has admitted it cropped one of the photos, but has not addressed the second photo or charges that Reuters' crops were politically motivated.
The Mavi Marmara was supposedly carrying peaceful activists, the New York Times reported, but the photos with knives and blood...Go to full story
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Nat Geo Calls out Photographer for Submitting Fake Photo to Contest
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
June 06, 2010 09:18 am EST
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| This photo, submitted by William Lascelles to National Geographic's photo contest, turned out to be a fake. (Credit: William Lascelles photo on National Geographic.com). |
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In its June 2010 issue, National Geographic published a column calling out photographer William Lascelles for submitting altered photographs to the magazine's photo contest as if they were unaltered. Lascelles submitted a photograph of a dog with Blue Angels jets flying in the sky behind it.
An abridged version of the column is available here. National Geographic wrote that Lascelles told the magazine's writer and researcher that the photo was...Go to full story
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