"Seeing is Believing: And It Always Will Be"

The Wall Street Journal, too, has a good article on the LAT doctored-photo debacle. One bit especially caught my eye:

.... Photojournalists were stunned that a breaking news photo was electronically doctored. "If you can't believe what you see, everything is suspect," says Dirck Halstead, a former White House photographer for Time magazine and now a professor of photojournalism at the University of Texas in Austin....

(Thanks, MM.)

The professor's remark called to my mind a column of mine, Seeing is Believing: And It Always Will Be, which I thought I should call to your attention since it came out when The Blog from the Core was a just a newborn babe. :)

Video technology has been advancing at a dizzying pace. Computer-generated (CG) imagery enhances many movies in ways we (some of us, anyway) have come to expect. It also enhances live television broadcasts, including news and sports, in ways to which we have become accustomed — assuming we are aware of them. The technologies will continue to advance and will converge, some day, with momentous consequences....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 04/04/03 12:16:48 PM
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