{"id":3564,"date":"2009-09-17T06:05:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T06:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3564"},"modified":"2009-09-17T06:05:03","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T06:05:03","slug":"cropping_photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3564","title":{"rendered":"Cropping Photos&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lens.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/17\/essay-9\/?hp\">David Hulme Kennedy<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Sept. 14th Newsweek cover line \u2014 \u201cIs Your Baby Racist?\u201d \u2014 should have included a sub-head, \u201cIs Dick Cheney a Butcher?\u201d<br \/><Br><br \/>\nFeatured inside the magazine was a full-page, stand-alone picture of former Vice President Dick Cheney, knife in hand, leaning over a bloody carving board. Newsweek used it to illustrate a quote that he made about C.I.A. interrogators. By linking that photo with Mr. Cheney\u2019s comment and giving it such prominence, they implied something sinister, macabre, or even evil was going on there.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nI took that photograph at his daughter Liz\u2019s home during a two-day assignment, and was shocked by its usage. The meat on the cutting board wasn\u2019t the only thing butchered. In fact, Newsweek chose to crop out two-thirds of the original photograph, which showed Mrs. Cheney, both of their daughters, and one of their grandchildren, who were also in the kitchen, getting ready for a simple family dinner.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nHowever, Newsweek\u2019s objective in running the cropped version was to illustrate its editorial point of view, which could only have been done by shifting the content of the image so that readers just saw what the editors wanted them to see. This radical alteration is photo fakery. Newsweek\u2019s choice to run my picture as a political cartoon not only embarrassed and humiliated me and ridiculed the subject of the picture, but it ultimately denigrated my profession.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lens.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/17\/essay-9\/?hp\">David Hulme Kennedy<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Sept. 14th Newsweek cover line \u2014 \u201cIs Your Baby Racist?\u201d \u2014 should have included a sub-head, \u201cIs Dick Cheney a Butcher?\u201d<br \/><Br><br \/>\nFeatured inside the magazine was a full-page, stand-alone picture of former Vice President Dick Cheney, knife in hand, leaning over a bloody carving board. Newsweek used it to illustrate a quote that he made about C.I.A. interrogators. By linking that photo with Mr. Cheney\u2019s comment and giving it such prominence, they implied something sinister, macabre, or even evil was going on there.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nI took that photograph at his daughter Liz\u2019s home during a two-day assignment, and was shocked by its usage. The meat on the cutting board wasn\u2019t the only thing butchered. In fact, Newsweek chose to crop out two-thirds of the original photograph, which showed Mrs. Cheney, both of their daughters, and one of their grandchildren, who were also in the kitchen, getting ready for a simple family dinner.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nHowever, Newsweek\u2019s objective in running the cropped version was to illustrate its editorial point of view, which could only have been done by shifting the content of the image so that readers just saw what the editors wanted them to see. This radical alteration is photo fakery. Newsweek\u2019s choice to run my picture as a political cartoon not only embarrassed and humiliated me and ridiculed the subject of the picture, but it ultimately denigrated my profession.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}