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The news behind those news photos

Some of my better friends in the news biz were photojournalists (as they like to be called) and some of them were scrupulous about how they obtained their pictures, doing their best not to influence the news images they captured even as they operated with the pack.

But a few were far more cynical, to the extent of posing their “news” subjects and otherwise creating their photos through the manipulation of available objects, such as broken dolls carefully arranged for a disaster-aftermath picture.

None of the ones I knew carried throw-down dolls or torn teddy bears for the purpose but I’ve heard of such. This young photojournalist in Israel hasn’t discovered that yet, but if he keeps on digging into his colleagues’ unseemly alliance with faux Palestinian “rioters,” he well may.

Via Simply Jews.

Jay Janner’s photos

Jay, a staff photographer for the daily, has plenty of good ones on his blog. I’d post one but he’d probably ask me to take it down. Since he’s put them on the Web himself, it’s not necessary. Go see for yourself. Good stuff. No fakery.

Also Ralph Barrera. (I think I’ve spelled his name correctly, this time. Little inside joke. Very little.) And Brian Diggs and Kelly West. I didn’t realize so many had their own sites. Jay’s led me to them. Good for them.