Photoshop hoax strikes campaign trail
Boy, this is sure embarrassing. A newspaper in Memphis accidentally posted a Photoshop-manipulated photo of state Rep. Stacey Campfield holding a bumper sticker with the legend “Confederate Values”. Turns out the photo was taken from a blog that had just put the image together as a joke.However, it wasn’t a joke for the alt-weekly Memphis Flyer, and what was even more embarrassing was that the Knoxville News Sentinel ran the real photo that had him holding up the bumper sticker that said “Tax ‘n’ Spend”
Ouch.
You can read the whole story here, but this goes down in the long list of photo manipulation rearing its ugly head in journalism.
Really what are you doing ripping off photos online for publication in your paper, especially ones of important public figures?
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