Comments on: TV News Uses Photoshopped Tornado

By: Tom Ackroyd

Tom Ackroyd — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:30:03 +0000

This story is now on Snopes.

By: Don’t believe everything you see « Rowan Simpson

Don’t believe everything you see « Rowan Simpson — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:34:03 +0000

[...] Don’t believe everything you see Published July 6th, 2007 General , Technology Spare Room has a great scoop on the photo that both TVNZ and TV3 used in their coverage of the New Plymouth tornados earlier in the week. [...]

By: Creatrix Blog » Blog Archive » Adobe Photoshop: making the news more exciting

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:54:15 +0000

[...] Two New Zealand TV news stations used a heavily-Photoshopped picture of a tornado to spice up their reports. (Via Spare Room.) The woman who created the image as a bit of fun said she was surprised the news organisations didn’t check its authenticity. “It took two minutes to make and was so fudged it wasn’t funny,” she said. [...]

By: PRrag: All the news that’s fit to spin! » Blog Archive » Fake tornado photo punks New Zealand

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:23:25 +0000

[...] In a great piece of blogging by the folks at Spare Room, a New Zealand woman said she made a (clearly and obviously) photoshopped image of a tornado hitting New Plymouth, NZ as a joke to her coworkers. Well, the local television stations didn’t get the memo, and they posted it as news! [...]

By: Gammaman

Gammaman — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:32:25 +0000

Photoshopping images is a bit like smoking; it’s not gorwn-up and it’s not cool. We can all do it.

By: Peter Hodge

Peter Hodge — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:21:02 +0000

I would have thought the folks at the TV stations might have had checks in place to verify the credibility of their content. I think they taught us some thing about that in Journalisim school.

By: Ana

Ana — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:16:46 +0000

The following is a statement provided to the nice people at Throng.co.nz from TV3:

“TV3 was misled into using this image very briefly. As soon as we were advised it was potentially fake, we removed it from our system. It has served as a timely reminder to be vigilant with viewer contributions, particularly given the technology available to people at home.”

The following is a statement provided to Throng.co.nz from TVNZ:

Like many of the media, TVNZ used this image in good faith for a short time, and stopped using the image as soon as we realised it might not be authentic. We are very aware that photographs and video footage can be digitally altered, and we have processes in place to check the material that is supplied to us by the public. Because of this incident, we are reviewing these processes.

By: lyndon

lyndon — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:14:27 +0000

Stuff blogger: "it was submitted by an anonymous person, and upon closer inspection the people in the newsroom became a tad suspicious."

By: Regan

Regan — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 03:11:08 +0000

We’ve just published statements from both TVNZ and TV3

By: lyndon

lyndon — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:54:49 +0000

here's and easy game: spot the source: Google image search: Tornado GIS: New Plymouth foreshore I've seen fudgier photoshopping - clouds and so on are hard... Doesn't look like tornado weather, though. Guess it will do everyone good to be reminded not all pictures are real.

By: Peter Hodge

Peter Hodge — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:33:31 +0000

news slogan for Adobe:
Photoshop, making the news real.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:13:20 +0000

TV News Uses Photoshopped Tornado…

There’s no doubt that tornadoes hit New Plymouth this week, but it looks like the image used on Wednesday’s One News and 3 News had more humble beginnings. After the recent carnage in New Plymouth a woman used her Photoshop expertise to superimpose…

By: Ana

Ana — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:58:19 +0000

Curious: The photoshopper didn’t want to be named to protect her workplace. She told me she has no idea how the images were sent to One News or TV3 and I believe her. I suspect someone either did it maliciously or genuinely didn’t realise they were fake.

By: Morph Blog » Blog Archive » One News & 3 News use a photoshop image of a tornado

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:41:04 +0000

[...] For more check out Spare Room [...]

By: Curious

Curious — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:36:27 +0000

Why is the report unsourced?