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Army manipulated general's photo
By RICHARD LARDNER – 4 days ago WASHINGTON (AP) — 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. Lyon said the AP is developing procedures to protect against further occurrences and, once those steps are in place, it will consider lifting the ban. He said the AP is also discussing the problem with the military. Col. Cathy Abbott, chief of the Army's media relations division, said the Dunwoody photo did not violate Army policy that prohibits the cropping or editing of a photo to misrepresent the facts or change the circumstances of an event. She did not know who changed the photo or which Army office released it, she said. Dunwoody was promoted to full general on Friday at a Pentagon ceremony attended by Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of staff. In the original photo, the general appears to be sitting at a desk with a credenza and bookshelf behind her. Three stars on her uniform identify her as a lieutenant general, her rank before Friday's promotion. The altered photo, distributed by the Army and run on the AP's photo wire Thursday, shows Dunwoody in fatigues in front of an American flag. Her rank, affixed to the front of a soldier's tunic, is not visible. "We're not misrepresenting her," Abbott said. "The image is still clearly Gen. Dunwoody." In September, the AP banned use of a photo of Army Staff Sgt. Darris Dawson, who was killed in Iraq. Dawson's face and shoulders appeared to have been digitally altered. Abbott said Dawson's unit did not have an official photo of him and wanted one that could be used for a memorial service. "That photo was released to the public strictly by accident," she said. "We apologized for that." Bob Owen, deputy director of photography at the San Antonio Express-News, was the first to notice the changes in the Dawson and Dunwoody photos, finding the earlier versions on the Internet. Owen said he views all photos supplied by the Defense Department skeptically. "Photo journalists lose their jobs over this," he said.  "capturing bin Laden is not a top priority use of American resources" Bush, September 06 "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be here somewhere." "Maybe under here?" Bush, March 04 |
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Unless it's their palestinian stringers pasting in multiple rocket launches, phoney funeral processions, ambulances made to look as if they were attacked, the same mourner screaming in anguish at several scenes several months apart... ya know, that kinda thing. How do you spell INTEGRITY? ASSHOLECIATED PRESS... GULLIBLE? K9 BANDIT. |
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+1 you forgot the ammo with the bullets still in the case 577 BME 3"   500 KILL ALL  358 GREMLIN*we band of 45-70ers* D.R.S.S., "Bubba" "...all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed." Thomas Jefferson *Want to piss off a politician? Defend the constitution |
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Unless of course it's insurgent photo's in Iraq...then they'll allow that.
---------------------------------------- Obama: "It would be foolish, at such a critical time in our history, to pick people who had no experience." New Commander In Chief of the United States: "I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated," Obama told O'Reilly in an interview taped Thursday in York, PA. "It's succeeded beyond our wildest dreams." Barack, a foreign policy failure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCgPR3Qd2Os Barack, I've got a bracelet too... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRsjkkmnPcU&NR=1 |
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AP is Number 1 for FAUXTOGRAPHY
REPENT v. To sorrow or be pained for sin, as a violation of God's holy law, a dishonor to His character and government, and the foulest ingratitude to a Being of infinite benevolence. |
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