InfoD-Cafe: Ethics of PhotoShop

[Gunnar Swanson]

Since the Bushies are blaming this on the decision of an unsupervised 
editor a couple of practical (and, perhaps, ethical) lessons are:

1) Point out what you do to your boss in front of witnesses.

2) If you're going to fake images, at least have the courtesy to do a 
god job of it.

Gunnar

On Oct 29, 2004, at 9:31 AM, Karen Schriver wrote:
> If your teaching involves Photoshop, you might want to use this as an 
> example for your students. As you may know, today the Bush campaign 
> acknowledged that it doctored a photograph used in a television 
> commercial. The pic, from a Bush rally in which he appears in front of 
> US troups, took the podium out that Bush was standing in front of, and 
> copied a group of soldiers to fill in where the podium had been. A CNN 
> reporter commented, "unless Bush has changed his mind on human 
> cloning, he has some explaining to do." See the story at the 
> following:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/bush.ad.ap/index.html
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