{"id":339,"date":"2008-07-11T09:50:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T09:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=339"},"modified":"2008-07-15T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T11:05:53","slug":"editors-dont-look-at-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"Editors Don’t Look at Pictures?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a picture of Iran’s recent missile tests hit the front pages of major US newspapers and made news services including the BBC, one thing was obvious at a glance. It was a fake, as a blog on the NY Times<\/a> clearly shows (thanks to State of the Art<\/a> where I first saw the story, although there is rather more about it and how it broke on PDN Newswire<\/a>, as well as a later update on the story on PDN Pulse<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

An Irani Photoshop user had cloned in an extra missile, and it wasn’t a convincing job. One missile doesn’t look a lot different to another, but when several clouds of dust from the right hand missile appear identically and rather distinctively underneath the missile to its left it is a bit of an instant give-away.<\/p>\n

(When I looked there were over 600 comments on the post, although I’ve not read them all. Some suggest there may have been further doctoring of the image.)<\/p>\n

Yet though it was an obvious fake, not only did the picture fool Agence France Press<\/em>, who picked it up from an Iranian Revolutionary Guard web site who picked it up and distributed it (and I rather doubt will be sending the licensing fees back to Iran), but editors at leading newspapers and web news sites.<\/p>\n

If anyone in the media was seriously looking at photographs, the cloning would have been spotted immediately – it really is rather an amateur job as surely there must have been other images with the dust clouds at a different state from which they could have been borrowed – or a little intelligent reworking could have made them a less than perfect match. Of course it isn’t the only case of bad photo-manipulation – and State of the Art<\/em> have also reported Fox News being caught badly uglifying a NY Times reporter<\/a> recently, I think using one of the tools available for making a mess of your mates to post on your social networking site.<\/p>\n

But the news is dominated by people whose business is words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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