“Fauxtography”
- Posted by Beth on August 9th, 2006 filed in Blogs, Fauxtography, General, Israel, Journalism, Lebanon
I can’t even begin to keep up with all this Hezbollywood stuff (nor can Allah, as he says), but thankfully others are.
Michelle Malkin has a roundup of new incidents. Click all the links!
Zombie is keeping track of everything here, and is collecting more.
Free Republic is collecting everything reported on the blogosphere (and within FR) under the keyword “Fautography.” That should be a good way to keep up with everything as it happens since there are countless people contributing to it.
I would suggest bloggers should tag/categorize their “Fauxtography” posts as such, so they’re easily searchable on Technorati and elsewhere. Use this in your posts for Technorati (remove the spaces between the “< " and the "a," of course):
< a href="http://technorati.com/tag/fauxtography" rel="tag">fauxtography< /a>
Don’t forget, it is not just about photoshopping, but CONTEXT. Staging and false captions/stories are crucial. There’s far more contextual issues at play then there are instances of photoshopped photos, and most photoshoppers won’t be as clumsy as Adnan Hajj was.
Watch this video, and you’ll see the perfect example of staging and context.
Finally, for laughs groans, if you want to see a ridiculous display of useful idiocy on the left, check out this unbelievable crap from Media Matters. :roll:
UPDATE: Rusty has a column in Townhall today about the Reuters “fauxtography.” It’s a must-read.
Also, Mary Katherine Ham has a good example of context and photo staging in a picture of (big surprise) Cindy Sheehan
Iowa Voice says:
More Staging Of The News
And people wonder why conservatives have so little faith/trust in the media.
This time, it’s not Reuters….it’s (surprise!) the New York Times and US News & World Report.
Michelle is on top of it, as it Gateway Pundit and AllahPundit.
A pag…
Martin says:
I cannot write on this subject, I’m about 12 hours behind at any given moment…which is a lifetime on this story!! I’m laughing my nuts off at the Fauxtoshops on Jawa Report.
The Goatse one, though sick, made me laugh out lewd.
bRight & Early says:
First Cup 08.09.06
Well, let’s have some coffee and then take a swim. ~ Johnny Weissmuller
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The Right Nation says:
ReutersGate/7 - versione New York Times
Dopo la Reuters, anche il New York Times costretto ad ammettere il taroccamento (questa volta non digitale) di una sequenza di fotografie provenienti dal Libano. Ad affondare la corazzata liberal, questa volta, è stato Gateway Pundit. I falsi di Hezb…