This cropped photo left the photojournalist David Hume Kennerly, of Getty Images, disappointed with its usage. "The meat on the cutting board wasn’t the only thing butchered," wrote Kennerly on his blog, "Lens: Photography, Video and Visual Journalism." When Cheney is taken out of context does this make the viewer/reader understand something other than reality? What is the reality of this situation? Cheney was indeed cutting meat, but does the lack of context imply a different meaning?
Seething Kennerly goes on to write about the denigration of photojournalism by unscrupulous editors who choose to alter the meaning of the news to fit their own interpretation and therby causing the public to mistrust the media.
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/essay-9/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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