Saturday, November 15, 2008

AP gets tough on Photoshoppers

Hot on the heels of the recent "fauxtography" scandals of (insert news organization here) detailed with a loving hand here the AP decides to crack down...


...on the US Army.

"For us, there's a zero-tolerance policy of adding or subtracting actual content from an image," said Santiago Lyon, the AP's director of photography.


For US, that is those who are writers, this falls neatly into the genre know as tragicomdey.