more doctored press photos
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the bayrut photo ( http://theshapeofdays.com/2006/0… ) of yesterday that was photoshopped was mentioned extensively in the newspaper today with a link to this blog which features more dubious press photography:
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com…
scroll down for more interesting "lies"
- TheBlueOne0
Big deal. Propaganda is propaganda and if you don't expect it from both sides you're as green as a pool table and twice as square, if you know what I'm saying.
For all the "gotcha" hubub about the guys blurred out white tee shirt and the "managed" photo op I still saw wrecked buildings and three dead little girls. Frame it anyway you like, innocent kids are dying on both sides, and if hyping that can bring this shit to a close sooner, all the better.
- ********0
yeah, i hear ya.
but it could also be turning against the victims.
that is why i am still firmly AGAINST doctored images.
btw. reality there is harsh enough, no need to edit.
- TheBlueOne0
reality there is harsh enough, no need to edit.
Crouwel
(Aug 8 06, 05:50)
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Buy that man a drink.
- ********0
yes please.
- TheBlueOne0
You know facts are facts, and if human beings decided things on facts alone, well thsi would probably be a better world. Human beings need to hear emotional, engaging stories most of the time to do things. That's all this is. It's advertising, it's propaganda.
When people talk facts they're called wonks, wooden and passionless.* Sad, but true part of the sorry human condition.
* See Gore, Al
- ********0
Al Gore invented all this..
- monoboy0
Have you noticed the BBC shots of Beirut always include one of a childs toy amongst the rubble.
Always reminds me of drop the dead donkey - where the photographer always travels with a ripped teddy to throw into shot.
- TheBlueOne0
Building giant statues and ziggerauts and making cathedrals the tallest building in the town was all versions of the same propaganda in earlier times.
What's interesting is how technology has leveled the playing field. Where once, millenia ago only kings and States could make propaganda (i.e. giant ostentatious displays of power and wealth - I mean what are the pyramids if not a huge giant "Don't fuck with us, we're the Man" propaganda), today all it takes is a cheap digital camera and an internet connection.
That a giant mutlimedia corp and a/or State has to compete with individuals and organized non-state actors to get a "story told" is pretty cool.
Of course, there is crappy production and integrity across the board - some buildings fell down due to shoddy workmanship, thus undercutting the message they were trying to send, and some people have really crappy photography and photoshop skills.