Wrong Papua New Guinea photo: PACNews Uses Photo from Wrong Country
The headline, "PNG tribesman sues New Yorker magazine" features an article and image about Papua New Guinea tribesmen, Hep Daniel…
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NPPA Ethics Code leads the way in the Photoshop jungle
A Google search indicates that The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Ethics Code may be more familiar to media watchers…
Visual Crack-Cocaine? The Alternative World called Photoshop
The "before and after' Photoshopped images are more powerful when seen on Greg Apodaca's web site.Even when one knows that…
Canada’s Media Awareness Network ‘promotes critical thinking in young people about the media’
The Media Awareness Network or MNET is program "for teachers and Parents in Canada" whose mission is to "promotes critical…
The Hot Bed of Sensationalism: H1N1 news reporting from Hong Kong
The translation of the headline for Ming Pao, a Chinese newspaper’s special report on the H1N1 virus in North America,…
Wash Post reveals Scientology’s doctored image after ex-follower’s Dec 1999 discovery
The Washington Post reports January 2000 that a fake photo indicates that Scientology's big December 28, 1999 " millennial celebration of…
NY Daily News urges ‘create your own flyover’ of Air Force One
The New York Daily News asked on April 29 in the face of the flyover controversy: "Anyone in the White…
Rachel Corrie bulldozer propaganda photo debunked in 2006
The image certainly is dramatic --if it were true. In 2006, Lee Kaplan, investigative journalist wrote an article in CanadaFreePress.com…
UK Politician James Purnell authorizes fake photo of himself…2 weeks after slamming BBC’s fake contests
The UK Telegraph reported in Sept. 2007 that "Culture Secretary James Purnell, who led the Government's attack on the BBC's…
NPPA has specific ethics code for digital photography
The National Press Photographers Assn. (NPAA) has a specific ethics code for digital photography, titled "Digital Manipulation Code of Ethics."…