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Racists Photoshop Rom (Gypsy) into Riot to promote hate
Photoshopping a Gypsy (Romani) face into a sports riot in China, the unbelievable lengths that the Central European racist establishment will go to foment hate and violence against a tiny minority population.
The photographs that dominate this article are also extraordinary. They show a group of men angrily kicking a dark blue car. In and of itself that is not a surprising image, but what is remarkable is that this photograph was downloaded from an Asian news server and depicts Chinese sports fans on a spree of violence (the source of the original photo is at http://www.theoffside.com/asia/angry-mobs-a-flying-kick-in-china.html). Prostějovský Večerník, with the aid of a photo editor, substituted the face of a Romani man onto one of the figures (see above). Josef Popelka of the news server has since said he believes such behavior is in order because the photograph is just an "illustration".
Last Friday afternoon, as an answer to the editors' response to this criticism, a meme began to spread online from the HateFree Culture initiative drawing attention to this unethical manipulation of the photographs and the work methods of Prostějovský Večerník. This prompted many internet users to respond, either directly on the news outlet's website or on its Facebook profile. Some of the comments posted:
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"Dear Mr Anonymous Author of this article, I consider it it to be truly a dirty trick when, as a picture for your hateful article about Romani people, you post a photo of Chinese sports fans in Qingdao on the rampage with a couple of the faces Photoshopped so we can't tell they are Chinese. This is really pathetic."
The editors, however, are continuing to defend the photograph, and it remains online with the other material as the story is updated. It is also a question whether the news outlet purchased the rights to the original photograph and has the permission of whoever took it to alter it.
Last Friday afternoon, as an answer to the editors' response to this criticism, a meme began to spread online from the HateFree Culture initiative drawing attention to this unethical manipulation of the photographs and the work methods of Prostějovský Večerník. This prompted many internet users to respond, either directly on the news outlet's website or on its Facebook profile. Some of the comments posted:
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"Dear Mr Anonymous Author of this article, I consider it it to be truly a dirty trick when, as a picture for your hateful article about Romani people, you post a photo of Chinese sports fans in Qingdao on the rampage with a couple of the faces Photoshopped so we can't tell they are Chinese. This is really pathetic."
The editors, however, are continuing to defend the photograph, and it remains online with the other material as the story is updated. It is also a question whether the news outlet purchased the rights to the original photograph and has the permission of whoever took it to alter it.
Read more: http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/analysis-czech-news-outlet-misleads-readers-by-mastering-photoshop#