Category: Ethics
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How to Photograph Africa, a Satire by Getty Images & Stefano de Luigi
How to Photograph Africa, a Satire by Getty Images & Stefano de Luigi Getty Images and photographer Stefano de Luigi have teamed up to create a brilliantly hillarious parody of the worst journalistic stereotypes and cliches about Africa, something that they call (with tongue firmly planted in cheek) “T.I.A — This is Africa via John…
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Is this photo worth $80,000 « snapshots
There’s been a bit of chatter about town debating the winning image (above) in the 2010 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize worth $80,000. There’s universal agreement that the winner, Dean Sewell is an exceptional photographer and that the sole judge, Stephen Dupont is also extremely well credentialed both as a photographer and as someone suitable to…
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NPR's Schiller Says Juan Williams Was Fired Because of Ethics Guidelines – NYTimes.com
“We are a news organization that exists to serve the First Amendment,” she said. “The issue, again, was, Juan Williams, on several occasions — with the thing that happened earlier this week being only the most recent — violated our news code of ethics, to which he is beholden as a news analyst. And it…
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The New York Times Torture Euphemism Generator! – Boing Boing
The New York Times Torture Euphemism Generator! Reading the NYT’s stories about the Iraq War logs, I was struck by how it could get through such gruesome descriptions — fingers chopped off, chemicals splashed on prisoners — wit… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/22/torture.html Reading the NYT’s stories about the Iraq War logs, I was struck by…
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Tribune Company Ousts Randy Michaels as Chief – NYTimes.com
Tribune Chief Accepts Advice and Backs Out Sam Zell personally urged the controversial chief executive to step down after he became a dark sideshow. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/business/media/23tribune.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss “Though it appears to the rank and file in the newsroom that Randy, Lee and the boys attempted to destroy and desecrate the place, there are a lot of…
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Guernica / Here is New York
Thinking about 9/11: Would Americans have reacted less violently to our most disturbing day if we’d been allowed to see photographs of its most disturbing aspects? Link: Guernica / Here is New York
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Rescued Miners’ Secrecy Pact Erodes in Spotlight – NYTimes.com
Rescued Miners’ Secrecy Pact Erodes in Spotlight The miners rescued in Chile have asked for as little as $40 and upward of $25,000 for an interview. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/world/americas/18chile.html?_r=1 “I’ve had nightmares these days,” Mr. Reygadas said from the cramped tent, as reporters jostled for space. “But the worst nightmare is all of you.”
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Favre, Deadspin and the New Tawdry Journalism
When Salacious Is Irresistible A blog paid for a lewd story about Brett Favre, and then mainstream outlets followed. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/business/media/18carr.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss In the last week, I’ve gotten a very clear view of two things — the male physique purported to belong to Brett Favre and the inner workings of modern media. I wish I could…
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NSFW Memo From Tribune Executive Brings Apology – NYTimes.com
Tribune Memo Lands With a Thud at Headquarters Memo from Tribune executive with tawdry links lands with a thud. via Media Decoder Blog: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/tribune-memo-lands-with-a-thud-at-headquarters/?partner=rss&emc=rss The memo on Monday from Lee Abrams, the chief innovation officer at The Tribune Company, began innocently enough
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PDN Pulse » NY Times Apologizes for ‘Staged News Pictures’
NY Times Apologizes for ‘Staged News Pictures’ | PDNPulse Earlier today the New York Times printed a correction for a series of photographs Fred R. Conrad took of the galleries at the Museum of Modern Art. The images accompanied a review by Roberta Smith, published on September 30, of the recently opened “Abstra via PDNPulse:…
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Pakistan military chief orders probe of execution video
Pakistan military chief orders probe of execution video Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/07/AR2010100707341.html?wprss=rss_world The head of Pakistan’s military has ordered an investigation into a video, circulating on the Internet, that depicts the country’s soldiers executing blindfolded men in civilian dress.
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‘I was very concerned about the exploitation of that personal family tragedy in order to make a case for keeping American troops in Afghanistan and continuing this war, in which so many Afghans have suffered’ | duckrabbit
‘I was very concerned about the exploitation of that personal family tragedy in order to make a case for keeping American troops in Afghanistan and continuing this war, in which so many Afghans have suffered’ — duckrabbit Remember Aisha? The poster girl of how great our invasion of Afghanistan has been. The girl who has…
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When Life Gets in the Way of Art – NYTimes.com
When Life Gets in the Way of Art A photograph or a film stands on its own, independent of its creator — until, perhaps, it is revealed the artist is telling a lie. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/weekinreview/26kennedy.html?_r=1&ref=weekinreview I once took a picture in 1962 of a very poor black girl in Shelby County, Tennessee, holding a big…
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Netflix pays actors to pretend to be customers and talk to press at Canadian launch – Boing Boing
Netflix pays actors to pretend to be customers and talk to press at Canadian launch Netflix has had to apologize after it was revealed that the “enthusiastic customers” talking to the press at its Canadian launch were actors hired for the occasion, reciting lines from … via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/22/netflix-pays-actors.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 A day after Iran’s president…
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Photographer Ernest Withers doubled as FBI informant to spy on civil rights movement » The Commercial Appeal
As a foot soldier in J. Edgar Hoover’s domestic intelligence program, Withers helped the FBI gain a front-row seat to the civil rights and anti-war movements in Memphis. Much of his undercover work helped the FBI break up the Invaders, a Black Panther-styled militant group that became popular in disaffected black Memphis in the late…
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Civil Rights Photographer Unmasked as Informer – NYTimes.com
Civil Rights Photographer Unmasked as Informer Ernest C. Withers was paid to provide information on his subjects, The Commercial Appeal in Memphis reported. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/us/14photographer.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss On Sunday, The Commercial Appeal in Memphis published the results of a two-year investigation that showed Mr. Withers, who died in 2007 at age 85, had collaborated closely with two…
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The British Tabloid Phone-Hacking Scandal – NYTimes.com
Tabloid Hack Attack on Royals, and Beyond How a London paper listened in on the private voice mail messages of the rich and famous. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/magazine/05hacking-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss AS OF THIS SUMMER, five people have filed lawsuits accusing News Group Newspapers, a division of Rupert Murdoch’s publishing empire that includes News of the World, of breaking into…
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The Face That Launched a Thousand Drones? – The Vigilante Journalist
The much talked about August 9 Time magazine cover, unabashed in its aim to shore up support for the war effort in Afghanistan, has left many still shaking their heads in disbelief at such brazen exploitation of a woman’s suffering. It’s not the first time the plight of Afghan women has been used to manipulate…
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BP admits it 'Photoshopped' official images as oil spill 'cut and paste' row escalates – Telegraph
Environment Latest environmental news, features and updates. Pictures, video and more. via The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/oil/7904221/BP-admits-it-Photoshopped-official-images-as-oil-spill-cut-and-paste-row-escalates.html “National Geographic has learned of the tragic death of Wes Skiles, the accomplished underwater photographer, cinematographer and explorer with whom we’ve worked frequently,” the National Geographic Society said in a statement today. “The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Department is investigating…
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BP photoshops fake photo of crisis command center, posts on main BP site
BP photoshops fake photo of oil spill crisis command center to make it look busy – AMERICAblog News (H/t to AK for spotting this.) UPDATE 12:08PM Eastern 7/20/10: BP has faked yet another oil crisis response photo on its Web site. UPDATE: 11:14PM Eastern: BP has now posted the “original” photo, they claim. Except –…