Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon
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Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon
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Re: Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon
#2very insightful article. Do newspapers refuse to publish handout pictures that were manipulated by the source even if there was no wrong intention?
Re: Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon
#3very insightful article. Do newspapers refuse to publish handout pictures that were manipulated by the source even if there was no wrong intention?
Here's a very comprehensive archive of images that have been manipulated by the source, or by the publisher:
http://www.fourandsix.com/photo-tampering-history/
Re: Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon
#4Pardon my ignorance, but why is it so horrible to use a photo manipulated by the source--especially if you know exactly how and why it was manipulated, and you still have access to the original? This manipulation seems rather benign, too. Why must it be "removed from your photo archives"?
Re: Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon
#5Pardon my ignorance, but why is it so horrible to use a photo manipulated by the source--especially if you know exactly how and why it was manipulated, and you still have access to the original? This manipulation seems rather benign, too. Why must it be "removed from your photo archives"?
I wondered that too. I guess if your photo archives are supposed to be the bastion of utter truth (i.e. no manipulated one) then it makes sense, because unless you mark is as "edited" or similar, other users/people that come across the photo would assume it to be untouched.
It depends on how precise you want to be I suppose.
Re: Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon
#6Pardon my ignorance, but why is it so horrible to use a photo manipulated by the source--especially if you know exactly how and why it was manipulated, and you still have access to the original? This manipulation seems rather benign, too. Why must it be "removed from your photo archives"?
> Pardon my ignorance, but why is it so horrible to use a photo manipulated by the source
One reason I don’t want to see it: That’s not Neil. That’s Buzz Aldrin.
The main objection is that's not a photo of Neil.
Re: Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon
#7Pardon my ignorance, but why is it so horrible to use a photo manipulated by the source--especially if you know exactly how and why it was manipulated, and you still have access to the original? This manipulation seems rather benign, too. Why must it be "removed from your photo archives"?
Journalistic ethics basically.
Re: Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon
#8Pardon my ignorance, but why is it so horrible to use a photo manipulated by the source--especially if you know exactly how and why it was manipulated, and you still have access to the original? This manipulation seems rather benign, too. Why must it be "removed from your photo archives"?
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Re: Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon
#9Pardon my ignorance, but why is it so horrible to use a photo manipulated by the source--especially if you know exactly how and why it was manipulated, and you still have access to the original? This manipulation seems rather benign, too. Why must it be "removed from your photo archives"?
For example, the moon landing is a subject of many conspiracy theorists who claim it was fabricated. A doctored image (esp. by NASA) published just gives them another reason to argue that there was never a moon-landing as all the images from it are obviously fake.
Second, any reporter must verify his, or her sources, otherwise they are subject to manipulation and if a source is falsifying information, for whatever reason, that information must not be used as the reported cannot know to which degree was the information tampered with. It might have been just a minor cosmetic touch-up, or it might have been a complete fabrication. So while the demand to remove from the archive a famous 43-year old image sounds odd, it's very much on par with a practise that any decent publication must follow or risk the integrity of their whole publication.
Re: Why it's so hard to find a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon
#10Well that's a very interesting article to bring out facts. There are at least a billion people out there who still think this guy: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5903HR.jpg is Neil Armstrong. Also there is another half-a-billion or so which thinks man never landed on moon.
Darn the fluff, get the truth. Upvoted.