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Questions of image versus reality aren't new to television or to major media. After all, according to Christopher D. H. Row, a resident tutor in art history and theology in Kirkland House, Egyptian pharaohs used to write over their predecessors' cartouches. Perhaps in response, in more modern times National Geographic magazine digitally moved a pyramid so the picture would fit on its front cover. Television has also been no stranger to image editing: Baseball stadiums sometimes replace local ads with national ones in the television coverage. But CBS' decision raises new questions of whether television can be trusted when...
...didn't want to appear insensitive to any of the people affected by the turmoil in Eastern Europe." The intent of the change, she said, was "to not make a political statement." Of course, the move could be said to have backfired, making a simple photograph political. As Row said in an e-mail message, if the designers felt a picture mentioning Serbia "was too volatile for a Harvard audience, they should have chosen another image from the University Archives--an undoctored image--rather than present fiction as fact...
...change was not mentioned in the design credits, a choice which Row feels violates the standards of intellectual honesty "rigorously expected of Harvard's students." Perhaps the biggest sin was that the replacement wasn't done very well: The "brightness/contrast" tool in Photoshop could have lightened the obviously different background, and some more work could have removed the Serbian flag from directly above the altered word...
...Court TV will debut The Wrong Man, a documentary series on death-row innocents...
...Italian clothier Benetton's most recent advertising campaign, "We, On Death Row," features portraits of and interviews with death-row inmates...