Friday, April 20, 2007

Developments


The New York Post has admitted altering the photo I blogged about the other day, but won't say in what way. Although many question my assertion that they Photoshopped out the victim's penis, the Post's statement all but admits that's what they thought they were doing, rendering my correctness a mute point: "We decided to make a very minor alteration to the photograph of Kevin Sterne being carried out of Norris Hall to protect the wounded student's dignity but in no way change the news impact of the picture." (I didn't realize having a penis was something to be ashamed of, but OK.) Whether I'm "right" or not isn't really the point here (pardon the pun). The Post did shamelessly lie to its readers and don't seem to have any remorse about it whatsoever.

The Poynter Institute tries to sort things out here.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Kinda sad that the Poynter blog ends with "their's" and has other typos...considering it's about journalism...oh, well! It might not be a penis, actually. But you're right in saying that the NY Post believes it is, and that's why they castrated the photo.

Anonymous said...

Who cares about seeing a shooting victum's penis or whether or not a newspaper photoshopped it out.

Anonymous said...

Who cares? People who care about being told the truth in journalism. Remember the WMDs we heard so much about in the papers???

You're a moron if you don't "get" what the story is about.

Anonymous said...

Considering the history of the NY Post and journalism, are you surprised that they did some chopping to the picture? I have read so much commentary in the media on this picture recently, they focus on something that actually wasn't there, instead of on the big picture (or the whole story)

waddashame

Anonymous said...

When i saw that picture, all i could think of was how FAT those officers are! 4 officers struggling to carry one lean guy? i mean, don't you have to be fit to run around in crisis like that, especially if you're an officer to be first at the scene?

Anonymous said...

Don't ya just love prudes?

Another point is that in an article on the CBS News site (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/19/earlyshow/main2703855.shtml) the author says:

"Sterne, an Eagle Scout, thought quickly and wrapped a chord around his leg. That slowed the bleeding, and saved his life."

How did he use a chord as a tourniquet? That definitely had to be some fancy knot tying!