Fox News Digitally Alters Images of Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone

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18 pointsjsinai3 comments

I have no respect for Fox News, but this is pretty much a non-story. They ran an image of two photos from the unrest in Seattle mashed up together alongside stories of the unrest in Seattle. It wasn’t like it was from Gaza or Escape from New York or something. And in TV news terms it was probably run as a graphic and not a photo of the action on the ground. It’s also worth noting that the resulting photo is really no more shocking or scandalous than the source photos.

Photoshopping an armed man into a photograph from days ago and implying it was an on-the-ground example of the area is more than a little egregious.

If this resembled the current situation even remotely, they would have simply used one of the many photos from the countless on the ground photographers.

Saying this is a non-story is absolutely mind boggling.

I agree. They wanted to fool people into thinking the situation is worse than it really is, so they faked a photograph.

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