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HLN and photoshopped images in the press
PDW noticed the Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws adapted a picture using photoshop.
This is so NOT done...
The reaction from HLN is beneath all reason.
'Due to a technical mistake the clone stamp was used and a part of the picture was copied'
Excuse me?? What? The editors hand happened to go to photoshop, click on the brush, and copy paste certain spots by accident? C'mon...
Using photoshop and afterwards apologizing is one thing (like done by National geographic and Time Magazine in the past)
But denying this manipulation is beyond all ethics.
Make a mistake and recognize, learn for the future...
This should be an important precedent in Belgium where the media itself questions what went wrong.
It should be all over the news.
Because if this is allowed without any protest, what else will be?
My paper back in 2004 had a whole chapter on this item.
Maybe interesting to see and read which precedents in the past triggered a whole discussion amongst photojournalists and editors.
Read it here:Download plato's cave.pdf (4.3mb)
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Posted on June 15, 2006
in Limit of my knowledge, Living in Belgium
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An interesting read, thanks !
Posted by stuutekeer | June 15, 2006 11:39 AMThis is terrible. It's a real abuse of press freedom and its power over the minds of people.
What was the article about and what was the motive behind the manipulation? Just to fill up space?
Posted by Kris | June 15, 2006 1:15 PMIt's only HLN. A while ago there were some adapted pictures from our beloved mr. GWBush. Those were even worse.
Posted by stijn v. | June 15, 2006 4:04 PMThere is something terribly wrong with the press these days and not only with the low profile press. Even Knack, The Standaard, VTM news and VRT Nieuws make terrible mistakes and don't double check their sources.
I refer to the asbest affair of Karel Vinck yesterday. Knack didn't even contact Karel Vinck to hear the other side of the story.
Today Freya Van den Bossche was accused that she didn't wrote her thesis. Again a move of Knack.
De Standaard once had a headline which stated that The Rolling Stones are American. Well, they're British! It took them a few hours to fix that.
VTM Nieuws once said that the sale of The Rolling Stones took only 7 minutes! I followed up the sale with my own eyes, and it took 2,5 hours which was clairly communicated to the press. VRT Nieuws was talking about 6 hours on their website. The latter took a quarter to be fixed (after a simple e-mail).
I really don't understand what's going on with the Belgian press. Press these days are not more reliable than a simple blog, but of course they won't admit that!
Posted by Bart | June 15, 2006 5:53 PM@Kris: it's on a murder which took a lot of attention. the article refers to the fact there were a lot of people on the remembrance walk. (but apparently their picture didn't show a big amount of people so they filled it up)
@Stijn: 'only HLN'? Any source would do, in fact HLN is a very popular newspaper, so it should not fake stuff. -although i know they write worng stuff too-
@Bart: this might be one of the main reasons why i didn't want to be involved in reporting the news anymore. you sometimes feel used (one of my pictures was used by a french newspaper to show something totally different from what it showed..)
Posted by ine | June 15, 2006 6:59 PM