Link: As It Followed a Car Chase, Fox News Showed a Suicide – NYTimes.com
The network anchor at the time, Shepard Smith, apologized to viewers after returning from a sudden commercial break. “That won’t happen again on my watch, and I’m sorry,” Mr. Smith said, clearly shaken by the circumstances.
Link: Citizen fires whistleblower of doctored cover photo | News | National | Mail & Guardian
Johann “Slang” Hattingh tweeted about the incident shortly after the paper was published and a furious discussion about the ethics of the Citizen’s actions broke out over social media.
As we say prominently on the product page, FourMatch is a product that’s designed to “authenticate images instantly,” and that’s exactly what it does. It automatically identifies files that have been unmodified since they were first captured by a camera or mobile device. So, if you need to deliver strong evidence that a photo is truthful, FourMatch is the tool for you.
Link: New York Times denies State Department request to remove photo | JIMROMENESKO.COM
The Times says the U.S. government’s request to pull the photo of a dying ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was based on “an emotional argument.”
Link: Conscientious | What is the news value of the photo of a dead man?
My simple rule in all likelihood is too simple. I can already think of all kinds of situations where showing the photograph of a dead person who was unknown to the larger public still would be newsworthy. But what I’m really after here is that when someone says that such a photograph is “newsworthy,” then I’d really like to hear why.
9/11 in 2011 9/11 in 2001 Unfortunately, the Bush administration used the emotional power of the images of 9/11, including mine, to justify and gather support for an ill-conceived invasion of Iraq, a country that had absolutely no connection to the attack
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Ten years after the event, maybe Stockhausen was right when he said: “Well, what happened there is, of course—now all of you must adjust your brains—the biggest work of art there has ever been.”
The responses to the recent NYC shooting made me stop and think (link and link to news reports). I saw…
via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2012/08/shooting-from-the-hip/
We see things unfold through other’s filters, through the filter of their life experience and world view, their varying cultural references, and that ‘view’ gives a certain flavour to their observations. A flavour that others may fail to understand, or at worst utterly detest. And with these distractions we potentially lose sight of the message: two men died, tragically and unnecessarily.
There has been quite a bit of discussion about the Instagram photos of shooting victims at the Empire State Building yesterday, with as much debate on the actual photo threads as off. Much of the discussion involves propriety, with suggestions in media th
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2012/08/instagram-and-murder/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29
There has been quite a bit of discussion about the Instagram photos of shooting victims at the Empire State Building yesterday, with as much debate on the actual photo threads as off. Much of the discussion involves propriety, with suggestions in media the images were too immediate, too numb, too insensitive.
It is an extremely graphic image and we understand why many people found it jarring. Our editorial judgment is that it is a newsworthy photograph that shows the result and impact of a public act of violence
Link: How news websites handled graphic images of Empire State Building shooting | Poynter.
When today’s deadly shooting occurred in the heart of Manhattan, thousands of witnesses were nearby and many used cameras to quickly document the scene. Some of the images posted to Twitter, Instagram and Flickr included graphic photos of the shooting victims.
News organizations scrambled to curate these images, and then had to make difficult decisions about how to verify and handle them. Should they run them prominently on the home page or submerge them in an article? Link to them instead? And how to warn readers?
The British media, chastened by a year of controversy, are respecting the prince’s privacy, though not necessarily their own staff’s.
The British media, chastened by a year of controversy, are respecting the prince’s privacy, though not necessarily their own staff’s.
It’s been covered before, but worth repeating…
Link: ‘Mind-blowing’ tidbit about public radio | JIMROMENESKO.COM
The majority of radio interviews (especially public radio) are pre-recorded, edited, tightened to take out “uhs” and “hmmms” and generally cleaned up before they air. Very rarely is a public official or person of interest put on live in news radio except during breaking news (and usually only reporters go live).
Joan Juliet Buck, in explaining the background of her profile of Syria’s first lady, Asma al-Assad, gave new ammunition to critics. They seized on this line, among others: “Syria. The name itself sounded sinister, like syringe or hiss.”
via Media Decoder Blog: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/defense-of-ridiculed-vogue-profile-of-assad-leads-to-more-ridicule/?partner=rss&emc=rss
In her article — “How I Was Duped by Mrs. Assad” — Ms. Buck explains how she ended up reluctantly writing the flattering Vogue profile that brought the magazine scrutiny amid the Assad government’s reign of violence in Syria. But some of her explanations as to why she felt “Syria gave off a toxic aura” have set off fresh criticism.
What’s it like to witness a mob attack, a starving child or the aftermath of a bomb, and take a photograph instead of stopping to help? As two journalists are under fire for recording rather than intervening in a sex attack in India, we ask people who know
Link: AP adds new social media guidelines on live-tweeting, friending/following sources | Poynter.
The update to the policy resparked a debate about the AP’s restrictions on retweeting information. The policy says staffers should go out of their way when constructing each retweet to make it clear they’re not expressing a personal opinion or endorsement.
AP Social Media Editor Eric Carvin got a lot of questions on Twitter about the retweet policy from counterparts at Reuters (Anthony De Rosa), NPR (Eric’s brother, Andy Carvin), and The Wall Street Journal (Neal Mann).
Distinctive for depicting America’s female Olympic athletes as strong, powerful and individual, TIME’s Olympic covers are notable just for portraying the women as athletes.
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The aesthetics of these photos are notable for another reason as well. They draw the reader’s gaze to the female body without sexualizing it. Instead, women’s athleticism is featured. We are accustomed to seeing the chiseled musculature of male athletes in sports photography. Women, however, are more commonly sexualized, with shots of female athletes often indistinguishable from the gratuitous pictures of models and movie stars found in fashion layouts and men’s magazines.
Now I’m no picture expert, so correct me if I’m wrong (its probably just the odd way the men are…
via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2012/07/photo-shopped-pictures-of-assad-running-on-reuters-and-the-bbc/
Now I’m no picture expert, so correct me if I’m wrong (its probably just the odd way the men are not standing in line with one another), but to my untrained eye there’s something not quite right about these pictures of Syria’s Assad running today on the BBC here and Reuters
Media outlets send snippets of interviews to White House officials, who tweak them before publication or prohibit their use entirely.
via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/print/2012/07/the-most-transparent-administration-ever-doctors-its-quotes/259857/
Media outlets send snippets of interviews to White House officials, who tweak them before publication or prohibit their use entirely
