Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Such attempts of opinion manipulation happen every day. Alone the specific selection of pictures and video-sequences is allowing a large bandwidth. Sometimes, some go even further, like this rather untalented dude here. I have rarely seen such an awkward application of the clone stamp. When I worked as tv news video editor back in 1990, the anti apartheid riots in southern africa were a frequent topic. News editors wanted me to insert brutal takes of police violence in Soweto into actual news edits, though the shots were several months old. Of course I did it, otherwise I would have been laughed at as a wimp, or been fired, or both. In novembre 1997, there was an islamic terror assault against a group of mostly swiss tourists in Luxor, Egypt. 58 people were massacred. The swiss gun press "Blick" showed a picture of the site of crime, with a huge red puddle of blood allover the ground. In reality, it was water, and their picture editor had added the red color digitally. He's not been fired, and the newspaper printed a short and small lettered rectification a few days later. Maybe this might be different today and the dude would be on the dole. This afternoon, most international medias reported about 40 civil victims after an israelian raid in Hula, Lebanon. Many had it as prime news. A few instants ago, Lebanon's prime minister Fuad Siniora rectified it was one victim only. I wonder how many medias will update their reports. Didier >From: "Kyle Cassidy" <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu> > >sweet barking cheese! how freaking awful! >http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13165165/ >the guy is a freaking photoshop nitwit. he deserves to be in the >breadline. > >i fixed it for him. jebas. >http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/temp/reuters-moron.jpg >article at the following link from MSNBC.