On Friday I was talking to Dima about an interesting essay:
Here is a link to an Errol Morris post from the NYTimes a-way back. In the essay and interviews Morris Looks into staged news photos and the ethics and politics involved in making captions. -included is a fine montage of 'Toy amidst the Rubble' pictures.
It Was All Started By a Mouse
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/it-was-all-started-by-a-mouse-part-1/
best,
C.U.
Here is another big scandal around picture manipulation during the recent Israeli-Lebanon war: http://zombietime.com/reuters_photo_fraud/
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