by iMediaEthics Staff on Oct 01, 2008
16 Excessively Photoshopped Magazine Covers
Amanda said, "It's no secret that magazines and other media outlets use Photoshop to make their cover models look "just so,"...
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by iMediaEthics Staff on Oct 02, 2008
Old Time “Photoshop” — circa 1900
Swiss Army Librarian's Brian Herzog wrote, " Someone found a photo in the library's historical archive that had been later...
by iMediaEthics Staff on Oct 03, 2008
What Readers’ Advocate ?
EditorsWeblog's Lauren Drablier posted a recent report about the rapidly disappearing "ombudsmen," "readers' representatives" or "public editors." Newspapers seeking budget...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Oct 06, 2008
Rotten Apple Story: Steve Jobs Heart attack story fake
Mainstream media (MsM) has tried to blame bloggers for the publication of a false rumor that made Apple stocks tumble....
by David W. Moore on Oct 07, 2008
It’s Entertainment; not Polling
Editor’s Note: David W. Moore, author of "The Opinion Makers: An Insiders Exposes The Truth Behind The Polls," was senior...
by iMediaEthics Staff on Oct 07, 2008
The Independent’s “Great Depression” Front-Page is a Fake
Campaign Spot's John Trenchard reported the photograph that The Independent used to illustrate America's 2008 "great depression" on its April...
by iMediaEthics Staff on Oct 08, 2008
NY Times Retracts 12 Years Of Calling John McCain “Fighter Pilot”
In August, The New York Times published an unusual correction. Ryan Tate at Gawker reported the newspaper "had erroneously...
by iMediaEthics Staff on Oct 13, 2008
“Read SPJ Ethics Code!”
Patrice Veit, wrote to the River Falls Journal , River Falls, Wisconsin, Population 14,000, about a "stunning breach of journalistic...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Oct 14, 2008
Are Newspapers Going the Way of the Hula Hoop?
It was “National Newspaper Week ,” Oct. 5-11, 2008, according to the promotional material orchestrated by the Newspaper Association of...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Oct 15, 2008
Train Your Eye at Photoshop Disasters
The website reads, "Have you seen a truly awful piece of Photoshop work? Clumsy manipulation, senseless comping, lazy cloning and...