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Re: lying with pixels



I didn't feel the need to go into too much depth with all of the more
obvious still photo fakes. The nice thing about them is that they are
essentially "after the fact," even though they may have been "staged."
Their apprehension by us as "fact" only occurs AFTER the event has
happened. The scariest part of this whole thread is that this technology
can allow things to happen IN REAL TIME. Repeat after me: "IN REAL
TIME."

Let's say you're watching CNN (sorry, CNN, nothing personal, but you
guys do seem to get the breaks when it comes to breaks!) and they cut to
a "breaking" story with live footage: guess what? The live footage is
being manipulated even as you watch it. Where's the original to point to
and say "Hey! that's been manipulated! Here's the original"...?

"Sacharski, Susan" wrote:

> This past Sunday the Arts & Entertainment network's documentary of biker
> culture revealed that Barney Petersen's infamous 1947 Life Magazine photo of
> a drunken motorcyclist terrorizing Hollister, California (that became the
> inspiration for The Wild One) was also "enhanced" with plenty of empty beer
> bottles around the Harley for dramatic effect.

Yeah, we watched that...as owner of a BMW R80RT, neither the bike nor I
fit that enhanced stereotype. Must just be those pesky Harley Davidson
riders...8-)...

> And didn't Oprah's fake body
> shot get TV Guide in trouble a few years back?

It didn't get them into enough trouble. Like I said, when the New York
Times gets around to wringing their hands about it, it's too late. We
better start figuring out how to authenticate the news...grrrhhh.

> Sue Sacharski
> Northwestern Memorial Hospital

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