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Canada NewsWire – Jul 16, 2008 8:50 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Lionel Beehner: Doctored photos undermine credibility of photojournalism
Leave it to the Iranians to make waves by launching a bunch of missiles, only to flub it up by falsifying the photos of missile tests. Yet Iran's military honchos are not the only ones guilty of using Photoshop for propagandistic purposes. The Kremlin has begun digitally removing images of dissidents from political talk shows - but sloppily leaving their feet in the footage, for some reason. Russia, of course, has a long history of altering images for nefarious reasons - Stalin used to airbrush his opponents out of photographs and insert himself next to his comrade in arms, Lenin. If a photo is worth a thousand words, then a doctored photo is worth a million. In this age of Photoshop, nothing is sacred ground, not even reporters' mug shots at the paper of record. Fox News allegedly altered photos of two New York Times reporters its host smeared as "attack dogs" by - yes - yellowing their teeth and moving back their hairlines. Yet this is no case of Republican camera trickery. Remember that Ann Coulter got similar treatment when her leggy body graced the cover of Time Magazine. Madison Avenue has also gotten in on the photo-altering act. Recall a Gatorade ad recently making the rounds on YouTube, where a girl leaps over the leftfield wall to catch a fly ball. The footage, of course, was faked - cables lifted her off the ground, not grit, determination or thirst-quenching Gatorade. Or take the NBA's latest marketing campaign, which melds together the mug shots of on-court foes like Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. Not one but two magazine covers - Time and the New Republic - gave similar treatment to the faces of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, prompting accusations of unoriginality from both sides (both are guilty of plagiarism - it was first done by Late Night with Conan O'Brien's "If they mated" bit). Humourists, too, have jumped on the Photoshop bandwagon. One of the most popular websites of recent memory shows the Garfield comic strip, minus the cat - leaving a lonely Jon talking to himself, pathetically staring off into space. Or watch a popular digitally altered YouTube clip of PBS' Charlie Rose hilariously interviewing himself. Yet where will this new era of visual dissembling leave us? Will it turn us all into dupes, holed up in our basements listening only to Morse code because it'll be only remaining thing we can trust? Maybe not, but we should be more aware than ever that the field of photojournalism has been invaded by myriad amateurs lurking on the web, where ample material exists to doctor, twist, embellish or distort. Who can forget the falsified image of a just-back-from-Vietnam John Kerry at a 1970s anti-war rally behind Jane Fonda? The whole point of photojournalism, of course, is that it does not lie - it illustrates to readers what so many column inches can't. More worrisome, however, is that photos in the news do not even have to be doctored to distort reality or damage someone's credibility. Take the picture beamed around the world by helicopter last month of a lost Amazonian tribe, clad in saffron and angrily shaking their sticks. The photo was not doctored but it turns out to have been a hoax no less - the tribe had been known for 100 years. Or recall the photograph of Obama clad in Muslim garb? Every election leaves some iconic image embedded in the minds of voters, for better or worse. The photo that sticks in my head most recently has nothing to do with politics. It captures a car ploughing headfirst into a motorcade of oncoming Mexican bicyclists. With bike and body parts messily splayed across the photo, like a reality-based version of a Jackson Pollack painting, it is a snapshot of a horrific moment in time, a freeze frame of utter chaos. No Photoshop wizard can touch up such a tragedy. The picture, as it should, speaks for itself.Related StoriesMultimillion pound security project shelved by ministersCybercrime: Teenage hacker in global scam dischargedJonathan Glancey: Full steam againSteve Boxer: The videogames that will never see the light of dayThe videogames that will never see the light of day
The Guardian – Jul 16, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Leave it to the Iranians to make waves by launching a bunch of missiles, only to flub it up by falsifying the photos of missile tests. Yet Iran's military honchos are not the only ones guilty of using Photoshop for propagandistic purposes. The Kremlin has begun digitally removing images of dissidents from political talk shows - but sloppily leaving their feet in the footage, for some reason. Russia, of course, has a long history of altering images for nefarious reasons - Stalin used to airbrush his opponents out of photographs and insert himself next to his comrade in arms, Lenin. If a photo is worth a thousand words, then a doctored photo is worth a million. In this age of Photoshop, nothing is sacred ground, not even reporters' mug shots at the paper of record. Fox News allegedly altered photos of two New York Times reporters its host smeared as "attack dogs" by - yes - yellowing their teeth and moving back their hairlines. Yet this is no case of Republican camera trickery. Remember that Ann Coulter got similar treatment when her leggy body graced the cover of Time Magazine. Madison Avenue has also gotten in on the photo-altering act. Recall a Gatorade ad recently making the rounds on YouTube, where a girl leaps over the leftfield wall to catch a fly ball. The footage, of course, was faked - cables lifted her off the ground, not grit, determination or thirst-quenching Gatorade. Or take the NBA's latest marketing campaign, which melds together the mug shots of on-court foes like Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. Not one but two magazine covers - Time and the New Republic - gave similar treatment to the faces of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, prompting accusations of unoriginality from both sides (both are guilty of plagiarism - it was first done by Late Night with Conan O'Brien's "If they mated" bit). Humourists, too, have jumped on the Photoshop bandwagon. One of the most popular websites of recent memory shows the Garfield comic strip, minus the cat - leaving a lonely Jon talking to himself, pathetically staring off into space. Or watch a popular digitally altered YouTube clip of PBS' Charlie Rose hilariously interviewing himself. Yet where will this new era of visual dissembling leave us? Will it turn us all into dupes, holed up in our basements listening only to Morse code because it'll be only remaining thing we can trust? Maybe not, but we should be more aware than ever that the field of photojournalism has been invaded by myriad amateurs lurking on the web, where ample material exists to doctor, twist, embellish or distort. Who can forget the falsified image of a just-back-from-Vietnam John Kerry at a 1970s anti-war rally behind Jane Fonda? The whole point of photojournalism, of course, is that it does not lie - it illustrates to readers what so many column inches can't. More worrisome, however, is that photos in the news do not even have to be doctored to distort reality or damage someone's credibility. Take the picture beamed around the world by helicopter last month of a lost Amazonian tribe, clad in saffron and angrily shaking their sticks. The photo was not doctored but it turns out to have been a hoax no less - the tribe had been known for 100 years. Or recall the photograph of Obama clad in Muslim garb? Every election leaves some iconic image embedded in the minds of voters, for better or worse. The photo that sticks in my head most recently has nothing to do with politics. It captures a car ploughing headfirst into a motorcade of oncoming Mexican bicyclists. With bike and body parts messily splayed across the photo, like a reality-based version of a Jackson Pollack painting, it is a snapshot of a horrific moment in time, a freeze frame of utter chaos. No Photoshop wizard can touch up such a tragedy. The picture, as it should, speaks for itself.Related StoriesMultimillion pound security project shelved by ministersCybercrime: Teenage hacker in global scam dischargedJonathan Glancey: Full steam againSteve Boxer: The videogames that will never see the light of dayThe videogames that will never see the light of day
The Guardian – Jul 16, 2008 4:00 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Claudio Guzman, 80; produced children's TV show 'Villa Alegre'
Claudio Guzman, who produced one of the nation's first bicultural Spanish-English educational television programs for children, "Villa Alegre," which premiered in 1973 on PBS, has died. He was 80.
Los Angeles Times – Jul 16, 2008 06:36 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Claudio Guzman, who produced one of the nation's first bicultural Spanish-English educational television programs for children, "Villa Alegre," which premiered in 1973 on PBS, has died. He was 80.
Los Angeles Times – Jul 16, 2008 06:36 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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PBS, "NBC Nightly News" lead Emmy nominations
Reuters - PBS and "NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams" led the nominations Tuesday for the 29th annual News & Documentary Emmys.
Yahoo! – Jul 16, 2008 01:18 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Reuters - PBS and "NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams" led the nominations Tuesday for the 29th annual News & Documentary Emmys.
Yahoo! – Jul 16, 2008 01:18 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Julia McKenzie to play Miss Marple
LOS ANGELES, July 15 (UPI) -- British actress Julia McKenzie has taken over the role of the titular detective in the "Miss Marple" series airing on PBS.
United Press International – Jul 15, 2008 6:30 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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LOS ANGELES, July 15 (UPI) -- British actress Julia McKenzie has taken over the role of the titular detective in the "Miss Marple" series airing on PBS.
United Press International – Jul 15, 2008 6:30 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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PBS tops news Emmy noms with 38
PBS and "NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams" led the nominations Tuesday for the 29th annual News & Documentary Emmys.
The Hollywood Reporter – Jul 15, 2008 4:30 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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PBS and "NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams" led the nominations Tuesday for the 29th annual News & Documentary Emmys.
The Hollywood Reporter – Jul 15, 2008 4:30 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Ian McKellen Going Full-Frontal On PBS?"Lord of the Rings" star Ian McKellen's full-frontal nude scene from the New York stage production of "King Lear" may be shown on PBS when the play airs.
Fox5vegas.com – Jul 15, 2008 3:25 PM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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PBS to party with pols every night
Reuters - The broadcast networks aren't saying how much coverage they plan for the party nominating conventions, but PBS plans to take the full course in primetime.
Yahoo! – Jul 15, 2008 09:44 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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Reuters - The broadcast networks aren't saying how much coverage they plan for the party nominating conventions, but PBS plans to take the full course in primetime.
Yahoo! – Jul 15, 2008 09:44 AM [GMT] ¦ comment?
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'The War' was all too real for these five Americans
World War II indelibly shaped the lives of millions of Americans, as Ken Burnsdocuments in PBS' The War (Part 2 tonight, 8 ET/PT, ...
USA Today – Sep 24, 2007 02:22 AM [GMT] ¦ 1 comment
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World War II indelibly shaped the lives of millions of Americans, as Ken Burnsdocuments in PBS' The War (Part 2 tonight, 8 ET/PT, ...
USA Today – Sep 24, 2007 02:22 AM [GMT] ¦ 1 comment
found in Entertainment: Television