AP suspends DoD for fauxtography
Unbelievable. AP, those news media developers who are too trustworthy to use faked photos (unless they come from Lebanon), had the audacity to say that they will suspend the use of official DoD photographs because a photo of new four-star general Ann Dunwoody had an altered background. Slashdot links to the BBC report, which said:
The Pentagon has become embroiled in a row after the US Army released a photo of a general to the media which was found to have been digitally altered.
Ann Dunwoody was shown in front of the US flag but it later emerged that this background had been added.
The Associated Press (AP) news agency subsequently suspended the use of US Department of Defense photos.
A Department of Defense spokeswoman insisted that the photo had not violated army policy.
Ms Dunwoody, the highest ranking US female military officer, was recently promoted to become a four-star general.
In an original photo of her, she appears to be sitting at a desk with a bookshelf behind her.
The altered photo, distributed by the army and initially sent by AP to its clients around the world, shows Gen Dunwoody against a background of the stars and stripes.