Doctored photos - Thoughts ?

[Donald Miller]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21978560/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13165165/

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archi.../19/60203.aspx

[Bruce Watson]

Now there's a dead horse that's been beaten for a while.

[harrykauf]

shocking! secret russian technology now available in the west?

[jetcode]

can't be any worse then rewriting history books in your favor, a common practice in the face of real crime

[tim atherton]

or just do it the old fashioned Victorian way like Roger Fenton...:

[billschwab]

Don't believe half of what you see... and none of what you hear.

I don't see where this is a problem unique to digital. Although I've always thought the Beirut shot was pathetic in that it demonstrastes editors have either become too uneducated or too jaded to do their jobs. How obvious can a sh***y cloning job be?

Look around... photographs aren't the only thing lying to us these days. There is no integrity in journalism anymore. When we have entire news agencies that are nothing but propagandists, why would anyone get upset over a few doctored photos?

[tim atherton]

There is no integrity in journalism anymore. When we have entire news agencies that are nothing but propagandists, why would anyone get upset over a few doctored photos?

You mean like in the days of William Randolph Hearst...?

[billschwab]

You mean like in the days of William Randolph Hearst...?

Sorry... Hearst is nothing when compared to Murdoch.

[walter23]

I put my face on a midget in a kinky pornographic scene within moments of getting my first copy of photoshop. That was like 10 years ago.

[jb7]

I put my face on a midget in a kinky pornographic scene within moments of getting my first copy of photoshop. That was like 10 years ago.

I'd love to put that in my signature on another photographic forum-
Would you mind?

Full attribution, of course-

joseph-