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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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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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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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Science journal runs photoshopped image with letter, doesn't disclose
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
May 13, 2010 2:48 pm EST
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| The iStockPhoto source for the photo accompanying a Science journal letter states that the photo is composite of multiple images (meaning Photoshopped) Science neglected to include this important information--that it was a photo illustration and not a documentary photo, in its caption. (Credit: iStockPhoto) |
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Australian Broadcasting Corp's ABC News Watch called out the journal Science for publishing a photoshopped image with its letter on global warming. They ran a story about the letter on their news site. (ABC News Watch is a watchdog for Australian Broadcasting Corporation, working to check and improve ABC’s coverage).
News Watch’s May 8 report noted that the iStockphoto of a single polar bear on an ice floe, is photoshopped confection...Go to full story
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More Bizarre Medical Images, This time at FOX News
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
February 28, 2010 10:01 am EST
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| IS THIS NEWS? A detail from a FOX News screen capture shows a mislabeled image in their “Outrageous Injuries” photo gallery. Is it ethical for FOX to publish X-Rays of a possible rape victim as infotainment? (It is not disclosed how the bottle got lodged in the abdomen--likely violently, even if voluntarily, through the man's rectum). |
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As StinkyJournalism wrote previously, photo galleries of bizarre medical conditions or injuries do not make ethical medical journalism.
But following on ABC's footsteps, FOX News is now running a gallery of images of "outrageous" injuries. Is it an adjunct to some illustrative medical reporting? They do not say.
In the “Outrageous Injuries” photo gallery text, FOX offers no reporting of substance, calling into question the news value and ethical...Go to full story
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Professor Sues Wesleyan After His Photo Was Mistaken for Campus Murderer
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
December 11, 2009 12:01 pm EST
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| "Being called a homicidal racist is not good for one's career," says a Cornell University professor, Stephen L. Morgan's attorney. Morgan's drivers license photo was mistakenly disseminated by Wesleyan University as the image of a suspected murderer last May. |
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Usually media errors claim few dramatic victims: a misspelling here, a fake photo there, but no real harm to private citizens—no lives or livelihoods destroyed. But with the pervasiveness and breadth of the Web, the occasional truly harmful mistake has become both more lasting and more easily spread.
This is the problem faced by Cornell University professor Stephen L. Morgan, whose drivers license photo was disseminated by Wesleyan University and identified as the...Go to full story
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NY Daily News Uses Stock Photo Child to Represent Psychotic, Obese Children Everywhere
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
November 02, 2009 07:43 am EST
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| The New York Daily News uses this stock photo of a shirtless boy (with no known mental disorders) to illustrate a story about children gaining weight on anti-psychotic drugs. |
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First the New York Daily News used a photograph of trash at the Bronx’s Hunts Point Market to illustrate a Florida woman’s death. Now an unidentified redhead has become their poster-boy for an article about overweight, psychotic children.
The boy in this Getty image stock photo is identified on the Getty website only as “Boy in pool locker room.” Unable to contact the boy himself, a parent, or the photographer, StinkyJournalism can conclude only...Go to full story
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Blogger Calls Vietnamese Police Photo A Fake: Stinkyjournalism Investigates
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| by Molika Ashford, stinkyjournalism.org |
October 18, 2009 06:38 am EST
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| IS IT A FAKE PHOTO? The timestamp on this photo, from a story in the Vietnamese paper Dantri.com says 9/10/2009. But the photo's metadata marks that the image was originally created in 2005. |
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On October 9, on freerepublic.com, Vietnamese blogger DieuVan Nguyen argued that a news photo implicating two Vietnamese journalists was a fake: Nguyen reports that Dantri.com, a Vietnamese online paper, had published a story about two journalists arrested for assault.
The accompanying photo of an injured man features a timestamp dated 9/10/2009 (October 9, 2009—dates are traditionally written day/month/year in most countries, including Vietnam). But,...Go to full story
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NY Daily News Uses Bronx Trash To Illustrate Florida Women's Death
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| by Molika Ashford, stinkyjournalism.org |
October 16, 2009 1:43 pm EST
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| This New York Daily News photo misleads readers into thinking the trash at Hunts Point produce market in the Bronx is the 8-foot-tall pile of garbage found inside a deceased Florida woman's house. |
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What a pile of garbage.
“Woman found dead under 8 feet of trash in Florida home,” reads an October 8th, New York Daily News story. Under the headline a towering mound of trash looms in an image readers would probably assume is the refuse mentioned in this tale of an elderly woman’s death.
But if you read closely, the caption of the photo reveals that the image is not of the Florida woman’s trash at all, but rather “A heaping...Go to full story
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Don't Send Me Fake Weather Photos says Meteorologist
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| by Rhonda Roland Shearer, StinkyJournalism.org |
July 14, 2009 08:29 am EST
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| Chief Meteorologist for WHNT NEWS 19, Dan Satterfield captioned the above fake image, which often has been sent to him by email, as being from "Hurricane this or that,": "This is not Hurricane XXXXXXX. It's a shelf cloud ahead of a thunderstorm. I bet it was taken on the Great Lakes." The TV station has posted a whole gallery of these weather photo fakes for readers to peruse. |
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Mainstream media's new dependence on content from citizens opens new problems. Determining authenticity of weather photos is now part of a new job description for meteorologists, according to the blog Dan's Wild Wild Science Journal.
Chief Meteorologist for WHNT NEWS 19 in Huntsville, Alabama, Dan Satterfield, writes: "I get hundreds of emails a week/sometimes each day. I try to answer as many as I can, but I and hundreds of my fellow...Go to full story
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