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Subject: [Leica] Another Altered Photo
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Mon Aug 7 10:07:06 2006
References: <BAY103-F40245114A1D947471575108B570@phx.gbl> <931BBD86-2B0F-4719-A0A6-C9CF0ED21EA4@charter.net> <44D7680F.5020408@waltjohnson.com> <7E5ECD5E-DBDA-4046-B604-B4C6892AC8A3@charter.net>

I can not begin to tell you how many times my wife heard the same thing 
from me. I worked for quite a few dailies and do not even read the damn 
papers anymore. If I still get curious enough to want information about 
a subject I go to the Library or Barnes and Nobles. Even then I look the 
other way when passing the Da Vinci Code nonsense. :-P

Walt

Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:

> For years I would come home, after covering an event, sit and watch  
> TV with my wife. I would constantly say that's not what happened. In  
> lot of that footage you could see the back of my head, stooping to  
> get out of the way of the TV crews. I would say that in more than  
> half the occasions by what the talking head were saying and what  
> actually was taking place didn't coincide.
> But then I was covering issues of concern for so called progressive  
> media outlets. Of which, by the way, only one progressive outlet ever  
> won a pulritzer prize in the life of that award. Something of a  
> matter of pride with that crowd.
> However, the Annenberg School of Communication seems to be gobbling  
> up, or co-opting, any progessive journalist of note for its  
> university programs.
>
> Slobodan Dimitrov
> Studio G-8,
> Angels Gate Cultural Center
> http://sdimitrovphoto.com
>
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 7, 2006, at 9:19 AM, Walt Johnson wrote:
>
>> Never were truer words typed. You are obviously a man with real- 
>> world experience in these matters. :-)
>>
>> Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:
>>
>>> The issue of altered photos pales in contrast to post-production,   
>>> i.e. after the image is taken, editorializing and inaccurate   
>>> captions. This goes back to the Civil War, and the Spanish  
>>> American  War (Hearst newspapers).
>>> It makes this current bout of scruppels laughable.
>>>
>>> Slobodan Dimitrov
>>> Studio G-8,
>>> Angels Gate Cultural Center
>>> http://sdimitrovphoto.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 7, 2006, at 7:48 AM, Gregory Rubenstein wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Reuters has canned a photographer in Beirut for altering a  photo,  
>>>> according to an article at the following link from MSNBC.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13165165/
>>>>
>>>> This includes the photo, altered and unaltered, as well as  
>>>> Reuter's  story.
>>>>
>>>> Greg Rubenstein
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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