Reply #103: Do you remember the stunt pulled by Tal Cual, when they photoshopped a gun in Chavez' hand,

[Judi Lynn]

when he had actually been holding a rose given to him at a speech he made for a women's association?

What certain people don't like is Americans finding out what is going on in Venezuela, like this nasty trick the Venezuelan paper, Tal Cual perpetrated on the public by erasing a rose from Chavez hand in a photo taken at a speech and replacing it with a gun:

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com.nyud.net:8090/images/2003/sep/tal_cual_pistola_original.jpg http://www.venezuelanalysis.com.nyud.net:8090/images/2003/sep/tal_cual_pistola_fotomontaje.jpg

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1025

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This may remind some people of the Miami Herald's Spanish edition and its trickery in producing a photo of Cuban hookers standing by cops with the message prostitution is state-protected in Cuba....

http://media.newtimes.com.nyud.net:8090/48673.0.jpg

Clues to Deception: In the doorway, there is a sharp variation in light between the right and left sides. Note the difference in perspective between the police officers and prostitutes. The police officers cast shadows. The prostitutes don't.

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Listen Up, McClatchy
The most-honored Spanish newspaper in the United States is ethically challenged
By Chuck Strouse
Article Published Jul 27, 2006

A striking, five-column color photo was splashed across the Sunday, June 25 edition of El Nuevo Herald. It showed four spandex-clad prostitutes in Cuba hailing a foreign tourist. Just a few feet away, two policemen conversed with a little girl and a woman. The headline: "Hookers: The Sad Meat of the American Dollar."

The cops obviously didn't care about the working girls — a clear sign of the hypocritically wanton ways of Fidel Castro's Cuba.

Problem is, the picture was a fake. Indeed it was just the kind of manipulated combination of two images that prompted the Los Angeles Times to fire staff photographer Brian Walski in 2003. Walski, you may recall, altered two photos of an American soldier to make them appear as one, more dramatic image. Several papers unknowingly published the combo on their front pages, and Thom McGuire, a Hartford Courant assistant managing editor, said the incident made him "sick to my stomach."

El Nuevo's sin was worse. Its image — on page 27A — appeared with the caption "The government has proven incapable of confronting the dramatic phenomenon of prostitution" and a story about a book on Cuba's working girls by author Amir Valle.

More:
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2006-07-27/news/listen-up-mcclatchy/