misinterpreted headlines.

Run_to_da_hills

I came across this in the Belfast Telegraph.

IRE60

ooooohhhhhhhhh Been there! Ran a promo once for a national airline and their country of origin. Promo was mapped for the bottom of a particular page - the accompanying story on the top was of a plane hitting the alps (i think). I pulled the promo under the circumstances - and it was late and there was no room elsewhere....

The halfwits in the PR agency the following morning rang early wondering why the promo hadn't run... couldn't understand the logic!

In the Bell Tels case - its just stupid, could have easily changed the blurbs on P1

Run_to_da_hills

The Clare Champion ran an article about some local gay benefit night. Directly above it was a photo of some of the members of a local motorbike club posing on bikes for another article. It looked like the lads in the picture were a part of the article below. They got such a slagging at the next club meet.

coylemj

A few years ago someone with some skills in Photoshop manipulated a scanned image of the front page of a Mayo newspaper. The actual headline read 'Massive jobs blow for Belmullet' but in the doctored image the second and third words were reversed!

Edit: here it is, not embedding the image for fear of offending the easily offended.....

Click at your own risk, coarse language ahead.....

http://imgur.com/u6Myn.jpg

jack presley

http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/video/categories/headlines/1227782/?__source=tnt|headlines|nav|videos

Jay Leno does this kind of thing every week,

goose2005

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/179257/SEX-OFFENDER.jpg

Snickers Man

goose2005 wrote: »

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/179257/SEX-OFFENDER.jpg

I doubt that's genuine. Any editor worth his or her salt would know that a picture placed above a story like that would be instantly actionable by the subject. Ditto for the previous post about the hairy bikers.

It's journalism law 101.

Funny though.

coylemj

Snickers Man wrote: »

I doubt that's genuine. Any editor worth his or her salt would know that a picture placed above a story like that would be instantly actionable by the subject. Ditto for the previous post about the hairy bikers.

It's journalism law 101.

Funny though.

Believe me the Mayo News front page has to be 100% genuine. If you ever worked with Photoshop you'd know that working on a photo of a page taken at an angle is vastly more difficult than doing the same to a flat scanned image. When the document is at an angle, a rectangle becomes a trapezium and lighting varies from one end of the page to the other, all of which makes the art of doctoring extremely difficult without giving the game away.

If you look at the flat scanned image of the Mayo Advertiser in my earlier post you'll see the type of image that can be easily manipulated, the photo of the Mayo News would be significantly more difficult to doctor without obvious evidence of the post processing.

Ruben Remus

coylemj wrote: »

Believe me the Mayo News front page has to be 100% genuine. If you ever worked with Photoshop you'd know that working on a photo of a page taken at an angle is vastly more difficult than doing the same to a flat scanned image. When the document is at an angle, a rectangle becomes a trapezium and lighting varies from one end of the page to the other, all of which makes the art of doctoring extremely difficult without giving the game away.

If you look at the flat scanned image of the Mayo Advertiser in my earlier post you'll see the type of image that can be easily manipulated, the photo of the Mayo News would be significantly more difficult to doctor without obvious evidence of the post processing.

Correct. The Mayo Advertiser front page is a fake, the Mayo News one is not.

Snickers Man

Ruben Remus wrote: »

Correct. The Mayo Advertiser front page is a fake, the Mayo News one is not.

Did he sue the Mayo News' ass then? If not why not? He would have cleaned up. If they had any money, that is.

coylemj

Snickers Man wrote: »

Did he sue the Mayo News' ass then? If not why not? He would have cleaned up. If they had any money, that is.

Frankly I doubt it. The trophy, the Mayo flag draped around him and the people dressed in tuxedos and ball gowns would represent a clear disconnect to the story below the photo. There is also a caption under the photo explaining the context.

Nobody could claim to associate the guy in the picture with the story below it and neither could the man holding the trophy claim reputational damage. If he could then everyone in the photo could also sue since if he could claim defamation then by the same logic all of the people in the photo could as well.