Fox runs digitally altered, misleading photos of Seattle protests

[Lemon Drop]

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-new...mous-zone/

[deckeda]

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

And critically: ad-supported.

[S. Pupp]

Fair and balanced.

[deckeda]

S. Pupp wrote:
Fair and balanced.

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

[sekker]

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

[Speedy]

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.

[Acer]

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.

[pdq]

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

Yeah, right.

[deckeda]

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

[Racer X]

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.