Washington Post Shows Wrong Half of Photo, Suggests Scalia Died?

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Washington Post Shows Wrong Half of Photo, Suggests Scalia Died?

by  Sydney Smith October 11, 2011 04:15 PM EST

Tags: Antonin Scalia, Death hoax, Patrick Pexton, Photojournalism Ethics, U.S., Washington Post

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The Washington Post’s public editor Patrick Pexton wrote about a photo mishap at the newspaper that suggested Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia had died.

In a blog, Pexton explained the Post’s Oct. 2 obituary of Peter Terpeluk Jr included a mis-cropped photo of Terpeluk and Scalia.  The error ended up with Scalia’s photo being used with Terpeluk’s photo.

Tags: Antonin Scalia, Death hoax, Patrick Pexton, Photojournalism Ethics, U.S., Washington Post

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