Fake photo?
London Times ran a story about this photo, published yesterday by the Korean Central News Agency, of being a possible fake. One of their readers noticed the shadow was a little “off” on the country’s leader, Kim Jong II. Interestingly, there is speculation that Jong suffered a stroke recently. The photo was released to offset that speculation. But in an uncanny turn of events, this photo may actually confirm the rumor! Check out the story and the paper’s analysis here.
In other fakery news, NPPA.org yesterday reported that the U.S. Army sent out on the AP wire a portrait of America’s first female four star general, which was later found to be doctored. The photo released by the Army shows the general in front of an American flag. The original, unedited photo, found on the internet by a guy named Bob Owen, was actually taken with her at her desk, with an ugly wall behind her. It’s a god-awful photoshop job, for which the chief of the Army’s media relations division told AP - according to the NPPA.org story - that the Dunwoody photo did not violate Army policy that prohibits the cropping or editing of a photo to misrepresent the facts or change the circumstances of an event.
Read the story and see the photos here.
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