Photoshopping
According to
a CNN report, the Bush campaign admits that it used Photoshop to doctor a photo included in a television ad released earlier this week. The use of Photoshop to doctor photos has long been an ethical issue among journalists (and the public), but a high-profile case like this is sort of surprising.
In the edits, a technician removed a podium in the foreground of the photo, then cloned several soldiers from another section and used them to fill in the foreground.
Here's a weird quote from Mark McKinnon, the staffer in charge of Bush campaign advertising:
There was no intention on anybody's part to try to represent anything that wasn't true.
Not that un-altered photos somehow represent a unified and complete truth. McKinnon said he wasn't aware that the photo had been altered before the commercial was released (the technician doing the work isn't named), but this obviously pushes at the (already hazy) distinction between "true" and "false".
Posted by johndan at October 29, 2004 01:31 PM
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