Guess what veteran media perp recently tweeted the following, intensely ironic message:
April 11, 2011 · 11:40 am
"Photoshop, journalism, and forensics: Why skepticism may be the best filter for photojournalism"
"Santiago Lyon and Hany Farid, an expert in the emerging field of digital forensics, were in town last week for a talk at MIT about photojournalism in the age of Photoshop. What the two men share is an interest in establishing systems to ferret out manipulated photos, with Lyon focused on policy while Farid looks to math. Their differing approaches make sense: Lyon oversees about 300 photographers, and Farid is a computer science professor at Dartmouth.
While they spend a fair amount of their time trying to find ways to combat photo manipulation, they say their bigger concern is our cultural acceptance of that manipulation and the resulting erosion of trust in photojournalism. But here’s the good news: Skepticism being alive and well is not entirely a bad thing."
Give up?
Why it was ol' JAMIE MCINTYRE!!!
http://jamiejmcintyre.wordpress.com/201 ... ournalism/
Yes, the same Jaunty Jamie who initially reported, from the scene, that there was absolutely no airplane wreckage at the Pentagon, but on the fifth anniversary of the charade was swearing up and down that he had both photographed the many plane parts and held several of them in his hands.
In case you're wondering just whatever became of this interesting character, the official story is that after leaving his longtime (20 years) employer, CNN, in 2008 because of a disagreement with management over "the way forward,"
the network's former "Chief Pentagon Correspondent" descended to the post of a staff blogger for a website called Pentagon.com.However, Jamie's on the move again. Lately he's been working as one of the "graveyard shift" (overnight) hourly-newscast readers at National Public Radio. But since a lot of NPR stations don't take the domestic network feed between midnight and dawn (they carry BBC propaganda instead) he so far hasn't gotten much notice in his new, back-on-the-air post.
So, how's about sending Jamie a bunch of "Welcome back; we haven't forgotten you!" messages, via the contact link at the main NPR website.
I'm sure he'd appreciate the recognition.
