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Poll: Should Reuters/AP Let Readers Know When Photos Come from Questionable Sources?

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Charles Johnson6/11/2010 4:59:00 pm PDT

re: #18 allegro

I was kinda thinking the same thing. Photos are both subjective, as seen through the eye of the photographer in framing, and objective, as a record of a moment in time. I’m trying to define “questionable” and its application.

Well, the definition of questionable isn’t exactly fixed. However, in cases like the Adem Ozkose photos I don’t think there’s much doubt that his background is an important part of the context. There may be some gray areas, but there are also a lot of cases where the lines seem pretty clear to me.