What to do when you need photos to illustrate police ignoring prostitution? Time to break out the Photoshop:
"A striking, five-column color photo was splashed across the Sunday, June 25 edition of El Nuevo Herald. It showed four spandex-clad prostitutes in Cuba hailing a foreign tourist. Just a few feet away, two policemen conversed with a little girl and a woman. The headline: "Hookers: The Sad Meat of the American Dollar."The cops obviously didn't care about the working girls — a clear sign of the hypocritically wanton ways of Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Problem is, the picture was a fake."
El Nuevo Herald, whose sister paper is the Miami Herald, has issued an explanation but no apology for the merging of the two unattributed photos into the one fab Photoshop that was so perfect for the article.
Posted by floridacracker at July 29, 2006 05:55 PMHeh, looks like faking the news is universal, especially when it's detrimental to the goverment.
Of course it's really just a rovian plot to destabilize the Castro goverment.
He's everywhere. :)
ˇEnvolturo de pescado!
Posted by: tfhr at July 30, 2006 01:06 AMyeah...what he said.
Nachos bellgrande, too!
I am just glad the one guy, Mr. Ed... let us know it was TWO mistakes and not one. And that it was just a mistake. Everybody knows how quickly a mistake can happen, almost overnight...or maybe two or three days, depending on how long the guy (or person) has been using Photoshop, and if it is a pirated copy or legit.
Posted by: csason at July 30, 2006 06:05 AM