Exam 2 Chapter 33 Flashcards
What happened in this case and what was the dilemma ?
Harding was accused of being behind Kerrigan’s injury, and they both were to go to the Olympics in Norway. On the front page of the New York Newsday magazine, they had a picture of the two women skating together. However, it was actually photoshopped and was two different pictures. It gave of the appearance of them really skating together when they in fact were not.
How did editor defend the composite photograph?
clue that it was illusion
he thought readers would know it was not real, that it was imagined event of what was to come, imagined scene, representation of what was to happen, not a literal account of what had happened
“to meet”
-he also wrote in the caption it was a composite
Why has photo manipulation become more acute in recent years : standard argument is that today’s technology
changes in technology make such manipulations undetectable
makes such manipulation undetectable and therefore more insidious
problem is more about
damage to “the paper’s most precious commodity” - its credibility
- reader will either not notice and receive incorrect info
-or they will notice and will not trust paper next time, mad at getting fooled
if the first impression is not corrected the paper has misinformed the reader
