Remember: Photos can lie...they never tell a whole story...they shape perspective and perception.
Update on Reuters photo and Adnan Hajj.
Another example of either shoddy photojournalism and/or agenda-driven bias.
Labels: Fauxtography, media distortion
posted by The WordSmith from Nantucket at 8/09/2006 07:25:00 AM
6 Comments:
Yeah, the sure can lie, and as we've seen lately, often do! I think it's absolutely disgusting what Reuters did and I don't believe they didn't realize they did that.
Nicely flexed leg and abs, don't you think?! Geez...
Wow!!! I guess we shouldn't be surprised. Its sad when photos and videos can be doctored so that even if you think you are seeing something it may not be the truth. Unbelievable!!
Aah...and now the correction comes...
Hmm....I was under the impression that the NYTimes merely got the caption wrong- chalk it up to sloppy journalism. As the correct caption was posted with NPR. But then I read this:
after this was publicized on a variety of blogs, Tyler Hicks[the photographer] was interviewed on NPR which featured the same photo on its site, this time -- according to Michelle Malkin -- with an updated caption, now saying that the man "had fallen and was hurt."
Who knows?
That quote was from Zombie, btw.
More:
The correct description was this one, which appeared with that picture in the printed edition of The Times: After an Israeli airstrike destroyed a building in Tyre, Lebanon, yesterday, one man helped another who had fallen and was hurt."
That's a big improvement, but many people feel the Times only backpedaled because the deceptive caption was caught by bloggers. Furthermore, many bloggers still feel that the man -- whose status was upgraded from dead to merely "injured" -- still looks like he's faking it nonetheless, feigning injury and posing for dramatic effect.
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