Category: Ethics & Legal

Here we go again … is The Washingtonian a journalism entity? Or did they step over a line? You decide. 

Jesse Epstein has an opinion piece – done as a video – on the New York Times site about, “Sex, Lies and Photoshop.” It comes from a proposed law in France that would require magazines to delineate how much retouching has been done on the photos. Not overly deep, but worth five minutes of your day.

After the last post about how evil Newsweek was for not retouching a photo of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin comes this post about whether using Palin’s legs as a framing device is sexist or not …  Note the number of comments – more than 14,000 as of Friday morning.  This is reminiscent of the photo of a Navy wife published in the...

Well, this is an entertaining turn … Fox News had a segment where Newsweek was taken to task for its cover photo of Sarah Palin … and it is just bizarre … They claim that the cover photo should have been retouched because that’s what the fashion magazines do. Umm … yes, they do. But Newsweek is not a fashion...

Honestly, this makes me pretty sick …  It is hard enough to do what we do everyday without having “colleagues” gloat about making subjects look bad. 

Photo Attorney Carolyn Wright has posted about the terms of service on Facebook – and it’s not friendly. Facebook, I’m sure, is not the only site to have this stuff buried in there. (I should probably go check Blogger.com …) Please make sure you’re reading those pesky terms of service agreements and that you’re not giving up anything you value...