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Fox runs digitally altered, misleading photos of Seattle protests - Lemon Drop - 06-13-2020

Doing what they can for Trump 2020


June 12, 2020 at 8:06 pm Updated June 12, 2020 at 11:01 pm

Fox News published digitally altered and misleading photos on stories about Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in what photojournalism experts called a clear violation of ethical standards for news organizations.

As part of a package of stories Friday about the zone, where demonstrators have taken over several city blocks on Capitol Hill after Seattle police abandoned the East Precinct, Fox’s website for much of the day featured a photo of a man standing with a military-style rifle in front of what appeared to be a smashed retail storefront.

The image was actually a mashup of photos from different days, taken by different photographers — it was done by splicing a Getty Images photo of an armed man, who had been at the protest zone June 10, with other images from May 30 of smashed windows in downtown Seattle. Another altered image combined the gunman photo with yet another image, making it appear as though he was standing in front of a sign declaring “You are now entering Free Cap Hill.”

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/fox-news-runs-digitally-altered-images-in-coverage-of-seattles-protests-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone/



Re: Fox runs digitally altered, misleading photos of Seattle protests - deckeda - 06-13-2020

Not everyone belongs to 4chan or 8chan. Fox News is just right there, a convenient opiate.

And critically: ad-supported.


Re: Fox runs digitally altered, misleading photos of Seattle protests - S. Pupp - 06-13-2020

Fair and balanced.


Re: Fox runs digitally altered, misleading photos of Seattle protests - deckeda - 06-13-2020

S. Pupp wrote:
Fair and balanced.

Precisely. Truth exists, and therefore so does Fox News to counter it.


Re: Fox runs digitally altered, misleading photos of Seattle protests - sekker - 06-13-2020

Wasn't even a GOOD photoshop job. Trivial to see.


Re: Fox runs digitally altered, misleading photos of Seattle protests - Speedy - 06-13-2020

Lemon Drop wrote: photojournalism experts called a clear violation of ethical standards for news organizations.

This is what let’s Faux Noise off the hook, they are a propaganda organization, not a news organization.


Re: Fox runs digitally altered, misleading photos of Seattle protests - Acer - 06-13-2020

These occupation zones, like CHAZ and the Occupy movement of several years ago, REALLY seem to twist the knickers of right wing media something fierce. Apparently overflowing trashcans weren't news anymore, they had to manufacture fresh meat.


Re: Fox runs digitally altered, misleading photos of Seattle protests - pdq - 06-14-2020

Fox has backed down...kinda (describing the doctored photos as a “home page photo collage”).

Yeah, right.


Re: Fox runs digitally altered, misleading photos of Seattle protests - deckeda - 06-14-2020

LOL, so a collage that's not "delineated" is somehow not a fake image with intent to deceive? Such losers.


Re: Fox runs digitally altered, misleading photos of Seattle protests - Racer X - 06-15-2020

And the subject of that fake photo was doing the exact opposite. He was private protection for some reporters. Former Marine. He put his charges in a safe location, and "secured" those rifles, WHICH WERE STOLEN FROM THE POLICE! He rendered them safe, and returned them to the Seattle PD.

FOX really fucked up.