Comments on: BBC Busted for Outdated China Oppression Image http://www.thomascrampton.com/china/bbc-busted-for-outdated-china-oppression-image/ Social Media in China and across Asia Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:20:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: maxiewawa http://www.thomascrampton.com/china/bbc-busted-for-outdated-china-oppression-image/comment-page-1/#comment-3994 maxiewawa Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:32:17 +0000 http://www.thomascrampton.com/china/bbc-busted-for-using-out-of-date-photo/#comment-3994 This just shows how rabid the anti-cnn mob is. They'll grab onto any 'mistake' as indicative the evil of western oppressors. This just shows how rabid the anti-cnn mob is. They’ll grab onto any ‘mistake’ as indicative the evil of western oppressors.

]]> By: thomascrampton http://www.thomascrampton.com/china/bbc-busted-for-outdated-china-oppression-image/comment-page-1/#comment-3978 thomascrampton Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:07:40 +0000 http://www.thomascrampton.com/china/bbc-busted-for-using-out-of-date-photo/#comment-3978 @Cerebus, @Shijiern Yes, stock photography has a place, but come on, an 8 year old image? I think it is great when readers - even the anti-CNN crowd - hold the media and bloggers accountable for inaccuracies. I would argue that at some point a stock photo itself becomes misleading and inaccurate. @Cerebus, @Shijiern

Yes, stock photography has a place, but come on, an 8 year old image?

I think it is great when readers – even the anti-CNN crowd – hold the media and bloggers accountable for inaccuracies.

I would argue that at some point a stock photo itself becomes misleading and inaccurate.

]]> By: Shijieren http://www.thomascrampton.com/china/bbc-busted-for-outdated-china-oppression-image/comment-page-1/#comment-3977 Shijieren Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:06:22 +0000 http://www.thomascrampton.com/china/bbc-busted-for-using-out-of-date-photo/#comment-3977 You want 'busted'? This one comes close: Just came across this link on Blogdai http://nepalnow.blogspot.com/2008/05/no-summit-for-china.html Not offering it as conclusive proof, but honestly there's far more 'busting' going on there than here... You want ‘busted’? This one comes close:

Just came across this link on Blogdai

http://nepalnow.blogspot.com/2008/05/no-summit-for-china.html

Not offering it as conclusive proof, but honestly there’s far more ‘busting’ going on there than here…

]]> By: Shijieren http://www.thomascrampton.com/china/bbc-busted-for-outdated-china-oppression-image/comment-page-1/#comment-3976 Shijieren Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:33:41 +0000 http://www.thomascrampton.com/china/bbc-busted-for-using-out-of-date-photo/#comment-3976 Seriously, Tom, I can't believe you - who should be more familiar with how 'stock photographs' are used (at any rate, more familiar than the prickly morons at anti-CNN) - used word 'busted'. Stock photographs of the sort that BBC has used here are pulled out as visual accompaniments to stories when no 'news pictures' are readily available; they make no claim to being news photographs. Sure, BBC could have tagged the photograph as file picture, but that it didn't isn't a crime. Coming as it does from a media culture where photographs are routinely photoshopped to crop out inconvenient leaders, it's a bit rich. But for you to take this forward and claim that the BBC has been 'busted' by anti-CNN is doubly tragic. Seriously, Tom, I can’t believe you – who should be more familiar with how ‘stock photographs’ are used (at any rate, more familiar than the prickly morons at anti-CNN) – used word ‘busted’.

Stock photographs of the sort that BBC has used here are pulled out as visual accompaniments to stories when no ‘news pictures’ are readily available; they make no claim to being news photographs. Sure, BBC could have tagged the photograph as file picture, but that it didn’t isn’t a crime.

Coming as it does from a media culture where photographs are routinely photoshopped to crop out inconvenient leaders, it’s a bit rich. But for you to take this forward and claim that the BBC has been ‘busted’ by anti-CNN is doubly tragic.

]]> By: cerebus http://www.thomascrampton.com/china/bbc-busted-for-outdated-china-oppression-image/comment-page-1/#comment-3969 cerebus Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:58:29 +0000 http://www.thomascrampton.com/china/bbc-busted-for-using-out-of-date-photo/#comment-3969 with all respect, two policemen looking at a computer screen is hardly an "oppression" image. this is hardly stock photo usage "gone wrong". this is exactly how stock images are used: illustratively. they wanted to show a. a policeman, b. a chinese policeman and c. a computer. they didn't claim anything else anywhere in any caption. what's offensive about the picture anyway? the only busting here is that of anti-cnn for being idiots who would grab at burning, electrified straws, if they could. with all respect, two policemen looking at a computer screen is hardly an “oppression” image. this is hardly stock photo usage “gone wrong”. this is exactly how stock images are used: illustratively. they wanted to show a. a policeman, b. a chinese policeman and c. a computer. they didn’t claim anything else anywhere in any caption.

what’s offensive about the picture anyway?

the only busting here is that of anti-cnn for being idiots who would grab at burning, electrified straws, if they could.

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