Every once in a while a journalism ethics question actually engages the public, and so it was with the brutally documented death of Ki-Suck Han.
via Media Decoder Blog: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/train-wreck-the-new-york-posts-subway-cover/?partner=rss&emc=rss
the decision to put the image on the The Post’s cover and frame it with a lurid headline that said “this man is about to die”? That part didn’t happen quickly
Link: Would you snap a picture or pull the man to safety? | Poynter.
When you publish or pass along photos of pending death without purpose, you might as well be posting a snuff film. There is no redeeming value.
When a news photographer witnesses a tragedy in the making, is his obligation to intervene or to document it?
That question has cropped up anew following the New York Post’s publication, on its front page, of a photo taken moments after a man was pushe
via Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/12/04/new-york-posts-subway-death-photo-was-it-ethical/
This may sound like an uncontroversial position, but within the world of professional photojournalism, it’s far from a settled question
If there’s a deeper critique of the photo, it’s that the catalyst and real subject of concern is missing.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2012/12/doom-in-america-what-the-ny-post-subway-death-photo-is-really-about/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29
Beyond the pitched cries of editorial impropriety, however, perhaps it’s not all clear what the subway photo is really about. When you think about it, for example, what the photo offers is not the story of what happened so much as its consequence. What’s missing in the photo is “the perp,” the push — the event which resulted in the horrible result we’re exposed to above
A freelance photographer working for the New York Post on an unrelated assignment happened to be standing on the 49th Street station platform when 58-year-old Queens resident Ki Suk Han was suddenly pushed onto the tracks by an as-yet-unidentified assaila
“Sickening rubber-necking front page from the New York Post,” tweeted Guardian sports editor Ian Prior. “Imagine how this man’s family feels.”
“The @nypost and the employee who made the call to put the man about to die from a train on its cover are pieces of trash,” adds Howard Stern producer Lee Gerowitz. “Despicable.”
Post freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi — who had been waiting on the platform of the 49th Street station — ran toward the train, repeatedly firing off his flash to warn the operator.
John McAfee, the millionaire software executive turned semi-fugitive, was falsely reported captured over the weekend. Now, in a new post on his blog, he claims that he’s left Belize for another country in the company of two Vice journalists and his longti
In fact, Vice did publish a story today, titled “We Are With John McAfee Right Now, Suckers,” complete with a photo of McAfee and Vice editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro taken with an iPhone 4S. And location information embedded in the photo indicates the foursome is in Guatemala, specifically along the Rio Dulce in the Parque Nacional Rio Dulce. Near the Ranchon Mary restaurant. By a swimming pool.
Link: Did Sports Illustrated manipulate this Baylor football photo? | Photography Blog
The Baylor jersey colors have been changed at the magazine from black to green for publication
In the midst of armed conflict, every photo tells a story. Just not the one you might think….
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/photographs-of-gaza-conflict-bring-accusations-of-media-bias/2012/11/22/5da23f40-3404-11e2-bfd5-e202b6d7b501_story.html
During eight days of hostilities between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip, an argument erupted over the images that documented the fighting. Supporters of each side saw unfairness in how events were portrayed through the news media’s camera lens, in a kind of mirror image of the conflict itself.
Why are activists on both sides of the conflict so eager to debate the question of whose munition killed a young Gaza boy?
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/11/20/skirmishes-in-the-israel-palestine-battle-over-photos-of-killed-children/?wprss=rss_world
“The latest controversy on Israel-Palestine blogs and social media is over a widely reported photo of Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil leaning over the body of a Palestinian boy who was killed in fighting Friday.
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Sometimes the only way to cover the human toll of disease, poverty and war is to rely on private aid groups for access. But when those groups hire photographers directly, that can create a different kind of conflict, raising ethical quandaries.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/when-interest-creates-a-conflict/
“The problem is that we say we will not work for Shell Oil because we don’t like their policies, but in the same breath, we have become the spokesperson for NGOs,” said Mr. Greene, 62. “But let’s be real — there’s only two kinds of people that go to conflict zones and places in crisis and that’s the NGOs and the journalists. We’re in bed with each other. You can’t operate without them. Any conflict, any crisis, you’re going to have to deal with an NGO. That’s just fact.”
When I first moved to the UK, I thought I understood why people hated the Daily Mail: it’s a shitty, sensationalist tabloid, right? What I failed to understand, in my naive, transatlantic way…
Here, then, is Martin Robbins doing a 20-minute presentation at The Pod Delusion’s third birthday bash, explaining in excruciating (and funny) detail why the Mail is an atrocious, vile fester of stinking shit, and why the people who publish it are scum
The winner of a prestigious photography competition has been stripped of his title after the judges ruled that he had changed his picture too much using computer software.
via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9652485/Photography-competition-winner-disqualified-for-too-much-Photoshopping.html
The winner of a prestigious photography competition has been stripped of his title after the judges ruled that he had changed his picture too much using computer software.
Link: Three Photographers Recall a 1996 Fall – NYTimes.com
for three photographers in the buffer zone stage right, it affected their lives in different ways. One caught the candidate, saving him from possible injury, while another caught the brunt of the falling banister, fracturing several bones in his foot. And one got the shot that captured the essence of a campaign that was starting to fall flat for a 73-year-old candidate whose age was already turning into a campaign issue
Link: Call it Art. Or, Don’t! – The Photo Society
I love the image, but I’m wishing I knew who was driving the car that afternoon. That’s who I’d like to congratulate. And honestly, when serious galleries decide that this kind of “appropriation” is the “art du jour” it denigrates all who think of themselves as artists.
Talking presidential campaign optics, photoshop and desperation, of course we can talk about character, ethics and the compunction to mess with reality and digitally lie. If a wire photographer did such a thing, of course, he’d be headed for the abyss.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2012/10/oh-doctor-romney-instagram-etch-a-sketches-campaign-photo/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29
it looks pretty clear the Romney campaign doctored a photo of a rally in Nevada this week to make the event, and crowd size look bigger
I can understand the media wanting to absolve itself of responsibility in enabling the Ryan photo op and distributing the pictures, but in this case, these comparisons don’t wash.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2012/10/no-everyone-doesnt-do-it-why-wapos-defense-of-ryans-soup-kitchen-photo-op-is-dead-wrong/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29
I’m so sorry it’s Washington’s premier news institution that forces me to have to spell this out in such frank terms, but the Ryan photo-op was much less theater than it was fraud.
This story stands to offer one more blow to the integrity of this campaign, as well as the credibility of the media to keep politicians honest, not just serve as a PR adjunct.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2012/10/did-ryan-campaign-fake-photo-op-at-ohio-soup-kitchen-and-did-media-enable-it/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29
Looking at the pictures published by CBS, AP, NBC and the NYT, it appears as if Paul Ryan rolled up his sleeves and helped clean up after a meal served at an Ohio soup kitchen. That’s in contrast, though, to the WAPO post which indicates Ryan not only arrived after all the homeless diners had left, but also after the kitchen was cleaned up
AP issues response on controversial Romney photo
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/ap-criticizes-over-a-romney-photo/2012/10/09/97c71f3e-1225-11e2-ba83-a7a396e6b2a7_blog.html
Hmmm, what’s going on in this Mitt Romney photo from a campaign stop yesterday in Fairfield, Va.?
Josh Levy from Free Press sez, “My colleague Tim Karr just released a report exposing the billions spent on political ads around the country — and how that money is pocketed by local TV…
Tim Karr just released a report exposing the billions spent on political ads around the country — and how that money is pocketed by local TV stations. Are these stations offering any local news coverage to debunk the lies in these ads? Are they exposing the deep-pocketed interests behind the groups buying ad time? The short answer is: No
