{"id":425,"date":"2003-04-09T03:42:36","date_gmt":"2003-04-09T08:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=425"},"modified":"2003-04-09T03:42:36","modified_gmt":"2003-04-09T08:42:36","slug":"whats-wrong-with-this-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s wrong with this picture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An award-winning LA Times photographer is fired for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/custom\/showcase\/la-ednote_blurb.blurb\">altering<\/a> a news photo.&nbsp;  It took a while to notice, but once I did, the fraud was obvious.&nbsp;  The man with the red bandanna in the lower left corner is duplicated in part just in fromt of the soldier&#8217;s leg.&nbsp;  One might argue that the alteration only improves the composition, while leaving the image&#8217;s meaning intact.&nbsp; Of course we only know this because we have seen the two originals from which the altered photo was derived.&nbsp; But beware; the real deceptions in this war, which I feel are already well underway, will distort the truth grotesquely, not slightly, and will do so with virtually undetectable sophistication.&nbsp;  If I felt that Brian Walski&#8217;s minor transgression was the worst lie to come out of this war, then I would be greatly relieved.  <\/p>\n<p>We do nothing about people who commit war crimes, yet we fire a reporter for retouching a photo.&nbsp;  What&#8217;s wrong with this picture?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An award-winning LA Times photographer is fired for altering a news photo.&nbsp; It took a while to notice, but once I did, the fraud was obvious.&nbsp; The man with the red bandanna in the lower left corner is duplicated in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=425\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[860,859,861,862],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-brian-walski","tag-la-times","tag-photographer","tag-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}