{"id":32456,"date":"2018-09-23T01:33:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T01:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32456"},"modified":"2018-09-23T01:33:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T01:33:07","slug":"the-scourge-of-doctored-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32456","title":{"rendered":"The scourge of doctored &#8216;photographs&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trump_boat_hurricane_harvey_faux_feature.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32457\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trump_boat_hurricane_harvey_faux_feature-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trump_boat_hurricane_harvey_faux_feature-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trump_boat_hurricane_harvey_faux_feature-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trump_boat_hurricane_harvey_faux_feature.jpg 865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, how I fear &#8220;photos&#8221; such as the one pictured here.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fake. Phony. Doctored. It purports to show Donald Trump lending a hand to someone trapped by Hurricane Harvey&#8217;s floodwater. It&#8217;s not. The original is of some Austin Fire Department personnel in that boat helping the individual who was caught by Mother Nature&#8217;s wrath.<\/p>\n<p>The picture is just one of those scourges that media folks &#8212; and that includes bloggers such as yours truly &#8212; must deal with on occasion.<\/p>\n<p>This image is quite obviously doctored. The president is depicted in a suit and tie with no life jacket. That&#8217;s a serious non-starter.<\/p>\n<p>But the Internet has produced its share of curses in this new media age. The ability to transmit doctored images intended to put individuals in a negative light or in a falsely positive light is just one of those curses.<\/p>\n<p>We full-time bloggers need to be careful about these images. I work for myself. I have no one but myself to keep me on the straight and narrow.<\/p>\n<p>Doctored images present immediate challenges that can bite us hard where we don&#8217;t like being bitten.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t misunderstand me. I am happy to acquaint myself with much of this 21st-century technology. However, not all of it gives me pleasure. It does keep me more alert to the potential danger that these images can present.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, how I fear &#8220;photos&#8221; such as the one pictured here. It&#8217;s fake. Phony. Doctored. It purports to show Donald Trump lending a hand to someone trapped by Hurricane Harvey&#8217;s floodwater. It&#8217;s not. The original is of some Austin Fire Department personnel in that boat helping the individual who was caught by Mother Nature&#8217;s wrath. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32456\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The scourge of doctored &#8216;photographs&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2122,2293,4300],"class_list":["post-32456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-internet","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32458,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32456\/revisions\/32458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}