Thursday, October 8, 2009
Pictures That Lie
I choose the picture AWOL in America because it caught my eye with the man being almost totally edited out of the picture itself. The picture was taken in Parris Island, South Carolina. In this photo the editor basically removed a man out of the line-up. The editor did so to help emphasize the fact that soldiers are going AWOL and just "disappearing" from their lineup. The manipulation was not harmful because all it does is give the reader a visual of what the article will be about. They did not add anything else to the photo or duplicate something that would not have normally been there.
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But they didn't use real soldiers who had gone AWOL - what about those soldiers? Did it imply that they broke the code?
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I think the manipulation would be harmful if you knew the soldier who was being edited out of the picture. That is interesting however, I guess they probably couldn't actually use a picture of someone who had actually gone AWOL huh?
ReplyDeleteI think your right about not being harmful cause he is not trying to show the an actual picture; he is trying to show a visual representation of the article.
ReplyDeleteI also do not think it is harmful. I actually think it is beneficial in that it serves its purpose of calling attention to AWOL soldiers very nicely.
ReplyDeleteI fail to think that its harmful either because its a realistic description of what was going on. I think the reason people would take it like that is because of how drastic of a change it was but in my opinion they were dead on
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