Army releases doctored photos of dead soldiers

[ThePhoenix]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/19/doctored-army-photos

The Kicker reports that “the Associated Press retracted two government-issued photographs last night after a photographer in Texas alerted the agency that the photos in question appeared to be doctored.” The photos depicted two U.S. soldiers, Staff Sgt. Darris Dawson and Sgt. Wesley R. Durbin, who both died in Iraq on September 14. Between the two photos, only the name, rank, and face of each soldier changes:

Bob Owen of the San Antonio Express-News, who first discovered the photos had been digitally altered, commented, “I’d like to think that the media holds itself pretty accountable and we try really hard to keep high standards. … Obviously the army, and the government, doesn’t see anything wrong with that at all.”

[Glorfindel]

1. Interchangeable pawns on a chessboard

Nothing new about that. :sarcasm:

[Mabus]

2. ...the camouflage patterns of the two uniforms were “perfectly identical.”

Bob Owen, chief photographer of the San Antonio Express-News, notified the AP that the photos of two deceased soldiers, who died in Iraq on Sept. 14, were nearly identical. Upon examining the photos, Owens noticed that everything except for the soldier’s face, name, and rank was the same. The most glaring similarity, Owen told CJR, was that the camouflage patterns of the two uniforms were “perfectly identical.”

http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/army_alters_photographs_issues.php

At least they went to the "trouble" of making the uniforms slightly different colors. :eyes: