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StinkyJournalism Media Picks
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Media Roundup: Shirley Sherrod's Firing and the Media
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
July 28, 2010 07:08 am EST
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| An out of context comment made by Shirley Sherrod, seen here in an interview with CNN posted on YouTube, took over the media spotlight last week. (Credit: CNN, YouTube) |
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Georgia state official Shirley Sherrod was fired from her post as state director for rural development of the U.S. Department of Agriculture last week after a blog published a short video clip of one of her speeches. The clip, which was given to and first published by Andrew Breitbart's Big Government site, was unsourced and used out of context. After the whole video was examined, media and government officials have been apologizing to Sherrod and looking at...Go to full story
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Bloggers Call Out Telegraph For Re-Using Gaza Photo From 2009
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
June 29, 2010 08:09 am EST
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| IT'S NOT 2010!--This Jan. 14, 2009 photo was originally captioned in context of Israeli-Hamas conflict. It was repackaged June 17, 2010 in The Guardian to accompany a story on Israel's blockade of Gaza without proper captioning. (Credit: Screen capture from The Telegraph, AP Photo). |
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MediaBackspin and YidwithLid blogged June 28 that that the Daily Telegraph used a 2009 photo out of context --suggesting a nearly two-year-old photo of an injured man was current in its report on the Gaza blockade.
The photo's foreground focuses on an injured Palestinian with destruction pictured in the background. The image, an Associated Press photo dated Jan. 14, 2009, was originally captioned: "Gaza City, 14 January: An injured...Go to full story
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10 Years Later, al-Dura controversy still alive, French media watchdog wins defamation suit
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
June 17, 2010 08:46 am EST
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| Philippe Karsenty, pictured, is the director of a French media watchdog site. He just won a libel suit, which followed his critique of a 2000 France 2 TV video. (Credit: Middle East Quarterly) |
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Another twist has been added to the decade-long debate over the "al-Dura" video broadcast by France 2, a national public television network. French mediia watchdog journalist Philippe Karsenty has won a libel suit following his criticism of the video.
The dramatic video from 2000 sowed the alleged death of a 12-year-old Palestinan boy named Mohammed al-Dura. As Atlantic Monthly wrote in June 2003, the image of al-Dura “shot dead in...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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Fox News' Obama Speech Video : Was it intentionally edited to remove applause?
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
June 07, 2010 10:30 am EST
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| Fox News' video of Barack Obama's speech at West Point notable featured roughly 12 seconds of silence. This screenshot from the Fox News video shows Obama standing at the podium.=(Credit: Fox News) |
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Bloggers questioned if Fox News removed 12 seconds of applause from the May 22 commencement speech Barack Obama gave at West Point.
The complete White House video shows cadets applauding Obama for 12 seconds after Obama says "we are poised to end our combat mission in Iraq this summer." However, in the Fox News video, after that statement, video footage shows Obama standing silently at the podium for 12 seconds. Then, the...Go to full story
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60 Minutes Erred by Innuendo, Columbia Journalism Review Says
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
April 26, 2010 08:47 am EST
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| The screenshot above is from the 60 Minutes' segment "Amazon Crude." Martha Hamilton, Columbia Journalism Review, wrote that 60 Minutes's report on the Chevron-Ecuador lawsuit contained a lot of innuendo that created distortions.
(Credit: CBS's 60 Minutes) |
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On April 14, the Columbia Journalism Review issued an almost 3,000-word report on 60 Minutes' segment, “Amazon Crude,” which was broadcast on May 4, 2009.
The CJR story, “How 60 Minutes Missed on Chevron,” analyzes “Amazon Crude," after a request from Chevron. "Amazon Crude" reported on the lawsuit between Chevron and Ecuador about Chevron's environmental responsibility for oil drilling in...Go to full story
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Move Over Balloon Boy, Remember Monster Pig Hoax? : Forced Perspective Photo Tricks on Flickr
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
October 23, 2009 08:21 am EST
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| STINKYJOURNALISM EXCLUSIVE: This new image is based on a scientific analysis done for StinkyJournalism by retired New York University physicist Dr. Richard Brandt. Brandt's analysis of the perspective geometry in the photo shows that the boy only appears to be directly behind the pig. He was actually about 5.5 feet further away, cuing the optical illusion that the boy is smaller than he is and the pig is huge in the foreground. This image illustrates how the forced perspective technique was used to create the infamous Monster Pig photo. See our Photo Gallery below that shows a collection of forced perspective trick photos from Flickr. (Credit: Robert Slawinski, StinkyJournalism) |
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Before the Colorado "Balloon Boy" hoax, there was the "Monster Pig" publicity stunt, which much like "Balloon Boy" involved the exploitation of a young boy and generated press attention around the world.
The 2007 photo distributed by the Associated Press (AP) featured an 11-year-old Alabama boy hunter holding a large handgun from behind--what only appeared to be--a wild 1051-pound beast. The image turned out to be fake, created...Go to full story
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Media Fails to Fact Check Skewed Stats in Palestinian Conflict Death Toll
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| by Danielle Mastropiero, StinkyJournalism.com |
April 07, 2009
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| Gaza image published by CNN to illustrate their story that uses dubious stats. |
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It's bad enough when TMZ and other seedy celebrity rags use "unnamed sources," but when the mainstream media incorporates them regularly as primary sources for war reporting it's clear the public has lost the battle for good journalism.
National Review Online's Stephanie Gutmann penned a recent article exploring the credibility of statistics that have poured in from the Middle East. Gutmann points out that an AP article listed the Palestine death toll as 900...Go to full story
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Is Yelp Guilty of Removing Bad Reviews for Advertisers?
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| by Danielle Mastropiero, StinkyJournalism.com |
March 31, 2009
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| Yelp with "Real People, Real Reviews" may have lost the public trust by leverging their ability to manipulate content to generate ad revenues |
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Although business review Web site Yelp may seem like a grassroots exchange of helpful information about businesses between Internet users, allegations of a manipulative system of cash in exchange for removing bad reviews is leading some to cry extortion.
According to an exposé by the East Bay Express News, business owners have complained of receiving unsolicited calls from Yelp offering to place bad reviews in less prominent positions or remove...Go to full story
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Look Mom, No Photoshop !
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| Fun fauxtography tricks you can try at home... Just don't hoax the media |
| by Rhonda Roland Shearer, StinkyJournalism.org |
November 17, 2008
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Who needs Photoshop? The optical illusion, called "forced perspective," fools the eye and brain into wrongly interpreting objects that are large and far away, as small and near.
Using precise alignment to manipulate human visual perception, it only appears in this photo that the woman is blowing a giant gust of smoke from her mouth, when in reality the fumes blow far behind her in the distance.
Credit: jasoneppink, Flickr |
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Who knew that optical illusions can be so diverse in the application of the principle called, "forced perspective?" Click here or right on the photograph to go to the 12 images in the Stinky Journalism album that were collected from the Internet by Polish bloggers.
The album includes many clever variations of the theme that exploits the ambiguity of size cues in a two-dimensional image. An ant walking around the edge of the drinking cup is...Go to full story
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