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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:31 AM
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The Hurricane Ike photo of the guy balanced on the pole is very irresponsible journalism.
Edited on Sat Sep-13-08 12:03 PM by arcadian


It's obvious that this guy is doing a balancing act. He's not being blown by the wind in that shot. This picture is being used irresponsibly, completely unprofessional and the editor who decided to run with that picture should lose his job. But all the news agencies are all over it as the photo is from a AP photographer.

We don't need the news turning something like a hurricane into a media circus... Bwahahaha... LOL! Did I just say that out loud? Of course they will.
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OlderButWiser Donating Member (389 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:33 AM
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1. Care to share
where the pic was posted?
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:41 AM
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3. Is it not showing up?
it should be there
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SteelPenguin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:50 AM
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10. I saw it on both msnbc and abc news homepages
On the MSNBC home page it carried no caption, and the headline matched to the photo was "hurricane ike pummels texas" or some such title. It was implied that the photo was real.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:37 AM
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2. Please explain why the photographer is lousy?
I'd love to hear this
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OlderButWiser Donating Member (389 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:41 AM
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4. I would agree
that if the picture was being passed off as a picture of what the wind was doing to that particular person then yes, it is misleading. But I need to see a link to where the pic was posted before I can assume the intent.
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SteelPenguin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:51 AM
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11. it did just that
It passed the picture off as real on both the abc news and msnbc website homepages.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:43 AM
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6. If he works for AP he should be a tad bit more professional.
It's really the editor though, the photographer probably just snaps off shots of everything within his field of vision.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:48 AM
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7. There ya go, I knew there was still some sense in you
Blame the editors, not the Photogs.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:52 AM
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12. Yeah, I take that back.
The photographer might have been thinking "What a yahoo, but this idiot is out in a hurricane which is a news event, I'll take his picture."
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:42 AM
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5. LOLz!
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TexasLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:48 AM
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8. Hey my son can do that!
no hurricane needed either! lol
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Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:49 AM
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9. He's right. This is such bullshit. I have a HOME IN BACLIFF!
I don't need to see shit like this. Particularly if it's bogus. And it's totally misleading.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94590889&ft=1&f=1001
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OlderButWiser Donating Member (389 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:56 AM
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14. The link you provided
kind of explains it as a 'trick'.
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Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:58 AM
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15. No, it does NOT.
It's extremely ambiguous and can be interpreted (and WAS interpreted by me, until I saw this post on DU) as very high winds in my hometown.
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OlderButWiser Donating Member (389 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:07 PM
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21. Did you read the caption?
"Tommy Scarborough supports himself on a post while he gets a lift from the strong winds created by the approaching Hurricane Ike "

The key phrase is "supports himself on a post". I will agree that the phrase "while he gets a lift from the strong winds" is somewhat misleading, but just a little bit.
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Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:15 PM
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28. I read it. None of us are stupid.
It's misleading. It's VERY misleading in this particular situation. It's irreponsible and they should be ashamed of themselves.
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OlderButWiser Donating Member (389 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:17 PM
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29. Whatever...
...there are more important things to get all huffy about than this little trivial photo.
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Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:28 PM
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32. Then you make that judgement for yourself, NOT FOR ME.
As I said before, I have a home in Bacliff. When I see a photo like this, it scares the shit out of me. I guess my fear of losing my family home to this hurricane is not an "important" issue to you or to the AP photographer; or for that matter, how fearful anyone who has been impacted by this hurricane is, but that's the point, isn't it? To INFORM people, not to MISINFORM people?

This IS an important issue. That photograph should not have been used.

You, in your safe little place, go on and post "whatever." Fuck you.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:06 PM
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20. Kind of?
"Tommy Scarborough supports himself on a post while he gets a lift from the strong winds created by the approaching Hurricane Ike in Bacliff, Texas, on Friday"

Caption claims he is being lifted up by the winds. He is lifting himself up. It also says, "supports himself", that implies that he is holding on for dear life.
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OlderButWiser Donating Member (389 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:08 PM
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22. No that's not what I get out of
the phrase "supports himself'. Now if they said "hangs on for dear life" instead I would agree with you.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:12 PM
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24. You are grasping at straws.
The caption wants you to think he's being at least "lifted up" by the wind. Come on now, you know it's bullshit.
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Beregond2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:55 AM
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13. A child of two could see this wasn't intended seriously.
Get a life.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:59 AM
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16. Seriously doubt it. There are people who will glance at that and figure that it's real.
OKay, so in your limited world view, it's just a lark, a "fun photo". Great timing. Glad you enjoyed it.
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Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:02 PM
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18. You are seriously ignorant.
YOU, in your safe place, with absolutely nothing at stake, might be able to see that this photo is bogus. But millions of people are looking at that photo and thinking of their homes in jeopardy. It's the heighth of irresponsibility to print something like that when people are afraid for their homes and their loved ones. THAT kind of "joke" has absolutely NO place in coverage of a national fucking disaster.

They ought to be ashamed of themselves.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:10 PM
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23. No matter how you look at it was a bad decision.
Either the editors intentionally put it up there to make people think there were high winds, knowing that the picture gave the impression that there were high winds, which is deceitful or they decided to put it up as a "fun photo", some kind of lark while people are being forced from their houses in a dangerous situation. Either way doesn't look good.
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OlderButWiser Donating Member (389 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:13 PM
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26. I will agree that there was no
Edited on Sat Sep-13-08 12:14 PM by OlderButWiser
reason to post the picture because it has nothing to do with the actual storm.
it was just a kid out mugging for the camera.
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Meiko Donating Member (73 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 06:52 PM
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38. Bull
Peoples houses are in the middle of a hurricane, the photo has nothing to do with it, overreact much?
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:01 PM
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17. "If it bleeds it leads!"
Remember that!
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MiniMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:03 PM
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19. To me, the problem with this is that it encourages people to stay so they
can get their pictures posted like this. I think the pic itself is funny, if it wasn't in the middle of such a serious situation. But they don't need to make people want to stay in these situations.
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LoveIsNow Donating Member (124 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:12 PM
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25. "Irresponsible Journalism"
as compared to all that responsible journalism we have in this country. Silly pictures and irrelevant stories about bears and the "secrets in your sweat", etc. are just part of the business.
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OlderButWiser Donating Member (389 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:15 PM
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27. Anyone read Portugese?
If so can you translate this caption?
Tommy Scarborough segura-se em poste para resistir aos fortes ventos de Ike, neste sábado (13), em Bacliff.
from: http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Mundo/0,,MUL758705-5602,00-FURACAO+IKE+PERDE+INTENSIDADE+APOS+DEIXAR+MILHOES+SEM+ENERGIA+NO+TEXAS.html
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LoveIsNow Donating Member (124 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:20 PM
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30. I read Spanish and would guess ...
Tommy Scarborough secures himself on a post to resist Ike's strong winds, this Saturday (the 13th), in Bacliff.
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:24 PM
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31. That picture is hilarious.
Like you said, it's OBVIOUS the guy is not being blown by the wind.
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Wednesdays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 12:39 PM
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33. Anyone with half a brain can tell that guy is just clowning around
If the wind were strong enough to lift his legs off the ground, there would be all sorts of things different about the scene. The trees in the background would be bending halfway to the ground, and the waves would have been at least 10 feet higher. His grip on the pole would have been much different--in the photo he's merely pressed against the pole and using his hands for guidance, not to cling to it.

And that's just off the top of my head.
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Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 04:19 PM
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34. When people are under stress, they don't have all of their faculties
functioning at 100%. They look at that picture and take it at it's face value.

It's a very irresponsible thing to do, in such a situation. And, even if you said it was just a joke, it's a very distasteful one, given the circumstances.

But YOU; you're just so VERY smart to get that it's just a pose, right? And just "off the top of" your head, too! WOW! What a genius!

Give us all a break and gain some compassion.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 04:22 PM
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35. Oh come off it
compassion for any dumbfucks unable to recognize having some fun?


this place is getting ridiculous
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Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 06:34 PM
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36. Like I said before.....I have a HOME in Galveston County.
It's NOT "fun" to me. It's not amusing AT ALL when it's your shit in jeopardy. You don't stop to think, "Hey, maybe it's a joke," because you can't conceive of any IDIOT making a joke like that during a fucking DISASTER. People don't often find humor in situations where they might lose the very things that are precious to them. Duh. What part of that don't you GET?

Of course, instead of being able to consider that, and put yourself in another's place for a few minutes, instead you call us all "dumbfucks." I think that the one who is ridiculous, here, is the person posting who obviously has no compassion for anyone but themselves. (Hint, hint: That's YOU.)
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 06:37 PM
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37. Christ you're tedious
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Th1onein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-14-08 12:23 PM
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39. Not tedious. Tenacious.
That's why I keep replying to your posts; hoping that you will see reason. But, of course, instead of bothering to put yourself in someone else's shoes, you choose to make the argument personal.

What a shame.
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