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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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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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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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West Virginia Newspaper Photoshops 3 Politicians out of Front-Page Photo
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
May 21, 2010 08:19 am EST
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| The original photo (left) shows five people. The doctored photo The Dominion Post published (right) only shows three. (Credit: Charleston Gazette) |
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A West Virginia newspaper ran a doctored front-page photograph on May 15.
The newspaper, Morgantown’s The Dominion Post , Photoshopped three politicians out of a photo of West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin's signing of a law that will toughen hit and run car accident penalties, West Virginia Public Broadcasting (WVPB) reported May 18.
According to WVPB, the photographer, Martin Valent, said “I’ve never seen anything like this on a...Go to full story
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Tiger Fauxtographer Jailed for Violating Parole, Said Searching for Tiger
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
May 08, 2010 08:24 am EST
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| Zhou Zhenglong was put in jail for not reporting in with officials. Zhou's 2007 fauxtographs of this tiger (from a poster) in the wild sparked a three-year investigation, culminating in 13 reprimands or firings and his jailing. |
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Tiger fauxtographer Zhou Zhenglong, who created a national scandal two years ago with his faked photographs of rare tigers, was jailed for not following court instructions and properly checking in with Chinese authorities, Yahoo! News reported May 5.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the Chinese farmer said he was trying to track the tiger in the mountains when he violated his parole. Zhou was picked up April 30, Sina reported.
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"Terrifying Sea Critter" Not So Terrifying After All
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
April 07, 2010 08:48 am EST
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| The main picture used for stories about the isopod, see top photo, shows the isopod without perspective or scale. (Credit: email to Ross Gwynn).
When in context, the isopods in the bottom photo look about as threatening as lobsters in a supermarket tank. (Credit: Fox News) |
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Was a mysterious sea creature found in the deep ocean? Recent sensationalized media and blog coverage of a sea isopod discovered in late March by a sub-sea survey company certainly presents it that way.
On March 27, Ross Gwynn, under the username "Gwynzer," posted photos of an isopod on Reddit. Reddit is a community-managed, user-submitted collection of posts that are or could be "new and popular" on the Web. Gwynn asked Reddit...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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