{"id":6042,"date":"2016-03-12T09:42:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T09:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=6042"},"modified":"2016-03-12T09:42:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T09:42:19","slug":"how-to-fake-a-giant-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=6042","title":{"rendered":"How to Fake a Giant Rat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content__headline js-score\">Good to see a short photography lesson from The Guardian, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2016\/mar\/11\/fake-giant-rat-picture-internet\" target=\"_blank\">How to fake a giant rat<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s perhaps a pity that they spoil it a little by continuing the title &#8220;(and why you shouldn&#8217;t trust pictures on the internet)&#8221;, as it isn&#8217;t really a story about the Internet, but something that illustrates a very basic fact of photography, and one which of course used to feature in photography courses long ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__headline js-score\">he article quotes news agency SWNS as correctly saying \u201c<em>clearly perspective plays a part in it<\/em>\u201d, and it goes on to comment that the image\u00a0 was used by everyone &#8220;from <em>Sky News <\/em>to the <em>Daily Mirror<\/em> to the <em>Evening Standard<\/em>&#8221; without comment or bothering to check whether the rat was really four foot long.\u00a0 These guys may be publishing on the Internet, but they are major media outlets and employ journalists. They even still employ a few photographers who could have advised them.\u00a0 Had they asked, but it was a better story without the facts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__headline js-score\">It isn&#8217;t really a story about the Internet. Or really about photography. But about journalistic standards and competency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__headline js-score\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good to see a short photography lesson from The Guardian, How to fake a giant rat.\u00a0 It&#8217;s perhaps a pity that they spoil it a little by continuing the title &#8220;(and why you shouldn&#8217;t trust pictures on the internet)&#8221;, as it isn&#8217;t really a story about the Internet, but something that illustrates a very basic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=6042\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Fake a Giant Rat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-issues","category-political-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6045,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions\/6045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}