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I dislike Fox News. They are clearly using these pictures to push a narrative and they absolutely need to be more clear about where and when the pictures came from.

However... that first picture was very obviously a collage, complete with inconsistent lighting and a gradient fade. You'd have to believe in ghosts to think that was an undoctored photo.

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Journalistic standards would dictate that it be clearly labeled photo illustration, in that case.

I 100% agree. But isn't a competing news outlet writing an article about a missing label just a bit on-the-nose? Particularly when considering the photo in question.

I think the fact that it happened 3 time to describe one event warrant a pat on the head and a "we got you" article.

I don't follow the "on-the-nose" comment in this context.

In theory, the media serves as the public watchdog for government. If media violates the ethical standards they should be called out.

The truth is television media has always had low standards for these rules versus print media. That it transfers to their digital properties is no surprise.

Television is called a medium because it is neither rare nor well done.

Ernie Kovacs sometime in the '60s

I think the first photo was posted as a collage, and the issue with it is more that the photos come from May 30th. The gun carrier's second photo is where the alter is important.

I wouldn't say believing in ghosts is beyond Fox News's audience. The other day, iirc, they even had to warm people against injecting bleach.

Something tells me "phantom protesters" was not the angle they were going for.

The only reason they don't go for it is because they don't find it useful.

> You’d have to believe in ghosts...

Looked at supermarket checkout tabloid covers lately?

https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/styles/scale_w1024/s3/st...

The believability bar may be lower than you’d hope.

It may be obvious if you are watching the full size version on a desktop/laptop screen, but it is not that obvious when you are scrolling through a bunch of thumbnails on your phone and specially if your vision is not 20/20. Also what you perceive as "inconsistent lighting" other can think of it as a flash.

If you scroll further in the article, the second image, showing a man in front of the CHAZ sign, is not clearly an edit.

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