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Originally Posted by Fullcrum  Interesting perspective Hayden - I was never aware of these things.
Sure, perspective counts with these images, but these are simple portraits, and the image was manipulated to make them look worse than normal - a clear attempt to distort truth by subtly making whoever they're attacking look worse and garner public opinion against them.
I'm sure photoshop manipulation is common, but that does not make it right.
What would you have the news agencies do, Hayden? |
I prefer to go by James
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Anyway, what they did was obviously dishonest, and I don't condone it. The issue is actually very complicated, and I could write many pages on the subject.
My conclusion is that there is pretty much nothing that can be done. News agencies distance themselves from bad apples as they are discovered, but there is no sure-fire method of preventing dishonest images from running as news images. I'm sure only relatively few are ever caught, but they definitely put on a show when one is discovered, presumably to let everyone know that it's not acceptable.