NY Times Admits Magazine Photos Altered

Images Showing Run-down Housing Construction Projects were Manipulated, Paper Says

(AP)  The New York Times inadvertently published digitally manipulated photographs in the latest issue of its Sunday magazine, the newspaper said Thursday.

In an editors note, the Times acknowledged that Edgar Martins, a 32-year-old freelance photographer based in Bedford, England, digitally altered the photos. The shots have been removed from the newspaper's Web site.

Readers pointed out alterations to the photo essay, titled "Ruins of the Second Gilded Age," on the blogs MetaFilter and PDN Pulse.

The photos showed run-down housing construction projects across the U.S. that had been hit by the recession. In an introduction to the spread, the magazine said the photos were created with long exposures but not altered by computer.

The Times said it confronted the photographer and found that "most of the images did not wholly reflect the reality they purported to show."

"Had the editors known that the photographs had been digitally manipulated, they would not have published the picture essay," the editor's note says.

[stickdog3]

Think about the OJ murder trial and how all thos pictures started rolling into prosecutors when they put out a plea for anyone having pictures of OJ in a certain shoe. They got at least well over 45 pics, all of 'em were found to be digitally altered by OJ's defense team. I'm not surprised by this article it happens all the time the untrained eye would never catch these things.

[GiveMeFreedom]

Way to go NYT. Just another black eye for the liberals to cover up.

[mjvwsr]

say it ain't so...the new york times altering the truth

[Slrman]

This shouldn't surprise anyone. For decades I have seen altered stories and articles that either concealed or ignored pertinent facts in the NYT. That they would fail to check the authenticity of photos as long as they make salable stories is just business as usual.