Yet another digital alteration case, now in Brazil

Hi all,

I just wanted to show this ridiculous example of digital altered news photograph that just happened here in Brazil.

http://www.garapa.org/en/2008/04/is-this-what-you-call-journalism/

One of our main weekly news magazines simply erased two words from a sign. What make it even worse are the obvious political intentions of this act. They erased (and what a bad photoshop work, right?) the words “Fora Serra”, which means “Serra out” – Jose Serra is our state governor here in Sao Paulo. The photo was taken during a “Landless workers” rally who were protesting against our land concentration policies. Basically, the editors liked the photo, but they didn’t want it to be so hard on our governor… why bother finding another image, right?

by Paulo Fehlauer at Sun Apr 20 06:31:04 UTC 2008 (ed. Apr 20 2008) São Paulo, Brazil | Bookmark this | Digg this |

What’s Brazilian for ‘Editors Out’? ;)

by Sion Touhig | 20 Apr 2008 08:04 | London, United Kingdom |

Its a shame. The other brazilian conventional media made some comments or the thing goes only in the web? another little issue i see is the web editors have the same habit that in my country. They insist in crop the photo the same way they did to fit in the space they have in the paper page. And put the caption inside the photo. Is like they don’t understand that in the web they can show only the picture. idiots

by Hernan Zenteno | 20 Apr 2008 13:04 (ed. Apr 20 2008) | Buenos Aires, Argentina |