{"id":746,"date":"2006-08-15T14:20:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T14:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2006-08-15T14:20:39","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T14:20:39","slug":"photoshopped-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/15\/photoshopped-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshopped Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNET has a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2300-1026_3-6033210-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg\">gallery of pictures<\/a> up that serve as a reminder that our news is always filtered, scrubbed, embellished, buffed and sweetened.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a whole series of pictures that have appeared in the media and news that have since been proven to be altered.&nbsp; This provides some nice depth to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/1,7340,L-3286966,...\">recent story<\/a> about a Reuters photographer who (very poorly) added some touches to a picture he took.&nbsp; In this case the end result is almost laughable once you notice the problem.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>So, as usual, the moral of the story is:&nbsp; If you are going to lie, be sure you don&#8217;t suck at lying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNET has a gallery of pictures up that serve as a reminder that our news is always filtered, scrubbed, embellished, buffed and sweetened.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a whole series of pictures that have appeared in the media and news that have since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/15\/photoshopped-reality\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-c2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}