Monday, July 31, 2006
Miami Spanish-language paper altered photos on prostitution
By Laura Wides-Munoz
Associated Press
Published: 7/28/06
Excerpt:
MIAMI -- The Miami
Herald's Spanish-language sister paper acknowledged Friday that it
manipulated two photos in a montage that made it falsely appear that
two Cuban police officers were ignoring prostitutes gesturing to a
tourist.
The picture published June 25 in El Nuevo Herald combined two archived
photos -- a 1994 photo of the officers by El Nuevo Herald photographer
Roberto Koltun, and a 1998 Associated Press photo of the women by John
Moore.
The two pictures were
matched closely enough that it appeared the officers were chatting a
few feet from the women, but the picture was not identified as a
montage.
Executive Editor Humberto Castello said the publication of the picture
without an identifying headline was an accident.
The problems with the photo montage were first reported Thursday in the
Miami New Times, an alternative weekly. A day later, El Nuevo Herald
published a long explanation to readers along with the original
photographs. ...
... "Here there were two mistakes,'' Castello said in an interview in
Spanish, "one that the photos weren't properly attributed, the other
was that it was not then clarified.'"
The montage accompanied a story on a book by Cuban writer Amir Valle,
entitled "Jineteras," or "Prostitutes," about the thriving industry
on the island. ...
...
Kenny Irby, a faculty member at the St. Petersburg-based Poynter
Institute for journalism, said such incidents can have a broader
negative effect on the public's view of the media, casting doubt on
authentic photographic work.
"They are tainted by association," he said.
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