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AP Suspends Army for Altering Photo
The irony in this story is almost unbearable.
The Associated Press on Friday suspended the use of photos provided by the Defense Department after the Army distributed a digitally altered photo of the U.S. military’s first female four-star general.
The image of Army Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody is the second Army-provided photo the AP has eliminated from its service in the last two months.
The AP said that adjusting photos and other imagery, even for aesthetic reasons, damages the credibility of the information distributed by the military to news organizations and the public.
“For us, there’s a zero-tolerance policy of adding or subtracting actual content from an image,” said Santiago Lyon, the AP’s director of photography.
You don’t crop photos? You don’t alter brightness, contrast or color balance? You don’t publish photos provided to you without any investigation.
Oh, that last one, you do.
Filed under: Media, Mocking · Tags: altered photo, AP, Associated Press, fake photo
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