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Originally Posted by MargaretR
Media lies is an problem whichever country you live in.
Here's Austria at it.
Newspaper Uses Photoshop To Make Syria Look Even Worse Somehow
"Newspaper Uses Photoshop To Make Syria Look Even Worse Somehow
Brian Barrett
The Kronen Zeitung is Austria's largest newspaper, with a daily readership of around three million people. Yesterday, those readers were treated to the image on the left of war-torn Aleppo, bombed out and desperate. Except, as one sharp-eyed Redditor points out, that wasn't the scene at all. It was just another Photoshop job.
Just to be clear, the family in the photograph is, in fact, in Syria; the original photo (on the right) came from the European Pressphoto Agency. But merely fleeing a city ravaged by guns and mortars apparently isn't quite dramatic enough on its own. The editors of the Krone—as it's commonly called—needed this baby to sing.
Using Photoshop to make actresses and models look unrealistically attractive is bad enough. Using it to make a part of the world that has enough problems as it is look even more apocalyptic? That's just disgraceful." |
On a minor level the BBC did it during the Euro 2012 Cup - when Italy scored their first goal against Germany, the BBC showed a photo of a German woman crying, making out she was crying because the Germans conceeded a goal (the first of 2 which sent them out of the competition) a few days latter, only because the woman saw it, it came that she was crying during the national anthem at the start of the game and the BBC had shown it after the goal to mislead people!