An outpouring of suspicion and condemnation came from all directions on Thursday, following the News Corporation’s decision to shut down the British tabloid The News of the World.
There are already indications that The News of the World may be reconstituted in some form. People with ties to the company said Thursday that the News Corporation had for some time been examining whether to start a Sunday edition for its other British tabloid, The Sun.
News of the World, the Murdoch-owned newspaper at the center of a phone ‘hacking’ scandal, is to close after Sunday’s edition. Though the world’s second largest English-lang…
James Murdoch said that the tabloid and News Corp. “failed to get to the bottom of repeated wrongdoing that occurred without conscience or legitimate purpose.”
British tabloid News of the World illegally accessed the messages left on the cellphone mailbox of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler, then deleted them to allow more to arrive.
A crummy government photoshop propaganda disaster in China has turned into a meme among Chinese netizens, who are furiously remixing three enthusiastic government officials into all manner of situa…
On the afternoon of June 27, our reader interviewed the Huili County Government publicity department director Zhang Yongzhi. According to Zhang, several county leaders went out to inspect the road. An accompanying worker took some photos for the record. But when it came to posting onto the website, the worker decided that “the background of the original photo did not look very good
President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel were clearly of two very different minds about the prospect of Israel reverting to its pre-1967 borders. The official White House photo by Pete Souza — showing the two leaders huddling outside the Oval Office on Friday — didn’t make life easy for picture editors.
By releasing this single picture, was the White House trying to convey a sense of comity? Of presidential confidence? Of a deep understanding between president and prime minister? There was no answering these questions, because no journalists witnessed the moment.
“No caption can make a fake picture real,” he said. “A fake picture is a fake picture. We already have a big enough problem getting a reader to believe us. Our credibility is all that we have. That trust — once broken — is never fully recovered.”
An Associated Press story reports that the U.S. White House has announced the end of the longtime but little known practice of re-enacting portions of live presidential addresses for the benefit of news photographers.
Issues surrounding photography and the “truth” of news pictures have become an unusual storyline running throughout this week’s coverage of America’s commando attack on Osama bin Laden’s compound, and the White House’s handing of both press photographers here and pictures of the terrorist’s body overseas.
Osama bin Laden was killed a few days ago, and today the White House announced it will not release an image of his corpse. A look at the impact of other famous death images–and what they say about us.
It is easy and convenient to dismiss our desire to record and to see as primitive. The outrage over the Kill Team photographs is perfectly understandable, but we need to understand a few things.
That means the photograph that appeared in many newspapers Monday morning of Obama speaking may have been the staged shot, captured after the president spoke. This type of staging has been going on for decades.
for me the question is not whether or not a photograph of the corpse of Bin Laden should be released. Do we really want to pretend that it’s not going to happen? Do we really want to believe that somehow a photo might not find its way onto the internet?
Combat photographer Joao Silva is at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he’s recovering after losing his legs in an explosion in October. Greg Marinovich is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who was shot four times while covering conflicts. Silva
an interview taped Tuesday with combat photographers Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva, both of whom have been seriously injured in the field.
Marinovich: “Just seeing someone — especially a mother over a young child or a young fighter or a young civilian who’s being killed — and that look they give you as you come to photograph them, while you’re kind of apologizing about photographing,” he says. “And people want you photographing to show what’s happened, but that look of hatred — that sometimes you get from a mother — is just so disturbing.”
Horrifying vegans everywhere it was recently uncovered that VegNews Magazine has been using stock pictures of meat and passing them off as vegan dishes. Quarrygirl.com a vegan blog with the tag line “meat is murder” posted the side-by-side comparisons (he
Horrifying vegans everywhere it was recently uncovered that VegNews Magazine has been using stock pictures of meat and passing them off as vegan dishes
An AP photographer has left his former colleagues at the New Orleans Times-Picayune feeling shocked and betrayed over his failure to report police abuse that he witnessed in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, according to a story published yest
“From his own testimony in a trial last fall against several New Orleans officers, it became clear that [Alex] Brandon withheld much of what he knew about the violent, rogue policing inflicted on some African American residents after the storm,” Los Angeles Times reporter James Rainey wrote in his column called On the Media.
