Brian Barrett
Gizmodo
Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:09 CDT

© Kronen Zeitung / European Pressphoto Agency
The
Kronen Zeitung is Austria's largest newspaper, with a daily readership of around three million people. Yesterday, those readers were treated to the image on the left of war-torn Aleppo, bombed out and desperate. Except, as
one sharp-eyed Redditor points out, that wasn't the scene at all. It was just another Photoshop job.
Just to be clear, the family in the photograph is, in fact, in Syria; the original photo (on the right) came from the European Pressphoto Agency. But merely fleeing a city ravaged by guns and mortars apparently isn't quite dramatic enough on its own. The editors of the
Krone - as it's commonly called - needed this baby to
sing.
Using Photoshop to make actresses and models look unrealistically attractive is bad enough. Using it to make a part of the world that has enough problems as it is look even more apocalyptic? That's just disgraceful. [
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Comment: No wonder why alternative and independent sources of information have become more and more popular in recent years.