Associated Press Photoshops Dead US Soldiers
THE Associated Press photoshops dead US soldiers:
The Kicker reports that “the Associated Press retracted two government-issued photographs last night after a photographer in Texas alerted the agency that the photos in question appeared to be doctored.” The photos depicted two U.S. soldiers, Staff Sgt. Darris Dawson and Sgt. Wesley R. Durbin, who both died in Iraq on September 14. Between the two photos, only the name, rank, and face of each soldier changes:
Spot the differnce…
Posted: 21st, September 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Twitterings, War On Terror Comments (6) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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September 23rd, 2008 at 12:17 am
The deception may lie more in where (and not how) they died, diary. All the world’s powers have had cloak-and-dagger operations in places where they ought not to have been. Whether in defiance of treaties, or just ‘understandings’ between forces who - in the face they show their media and populace - are still in the outward appearance of diplomacy, even alliance. Rumbles are that these two chaps died in one of those ‘midnight operations’ the likes of which eventually filter through to us, many ears later, as films like Air America.
On a more serious note, media depictions of war had been ever more sanitised ever since reporters went in with troops in Vietnam, and were able to show just how horrific war truly is. It is, and for some has been, lying on the cold ground in a foreign country; desperately trying to hold in your intestines as you hitch your last breaths. The parents should not see this (in the specifics of their own children), but in the larger and more abstract sense - to deny that this os what happens is to lie to us all. It’s still a shame they are dead, though. Especially if they died for some political purpose other then saving innocent lives, which, at least partly, World War 2 was about.
September 22nd, 2008 at 3:04 pm
what does it really matter if they were photoshopped or not? they’re both dead…
…better than showing a mutilated corpse in my opinion…
September 21st, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Which would have been fine for the white guy…
September 21st, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Apparently the only available photo for one of them had him wearing a t-shirt saying “I Boned Sarah Palin”.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:39 pm
It seems a little obvious and heavy-handed. With access to container-based stackable computer servers that can be slotted together like Lego blocks; technology like PixelFram’s PFTrack, which can combine live-action footage with computer-generated foolery; Augmented Reality software which can turn a crossword puzzle-like picture behind my head into a hand reaching out from the wall to grab at me (and that’s here at home with my clockwork computer) then the might of the US Military can do so much better than ’shopping a couple of pictures - or maybe with another 70 million potential recruits jazzed up on propaganda and neo-fundamentalism, they just don’t need to work that hard at all.
It’s a crying shame they’re dead anyway. For whatever reason and under whatever circumstances. If my spawn wanted to join the military I’d kill ‘em myself and save them ‘enemy’ the bother.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Actually, it was the Army which photoshopped the dead soldiers, not AP…