Fauxtographer Detrich Lied - About 80 Times

When photojournalist Allan Detrich, well-known for his work covering storms, was fired from The Blade for photoshopping a front page image of a baseball team, he claimed it was an oversight caused by sending the paper a personal copy of the image. It appears he made the same oversight a total of 79 times.

Detrich told his editors he altered the baseball team photo for his personal files and mistakenly sent it to the newspaper.

After reviewing Detrich's work, the newspaper said it found that 79 of the 947 photos he submitted since Jan. 1 had been altered.

"It is impossible to make sense of why this happened, and we are embarrassed by it," Royhab wrote, apologizing to readers in the column.

Comments

[Phoenix]

HR...

I did. haha. :)

I typed "Bite me." but that wasn't good enough.

[Hard Right]

"And to all you bores who point out misspellings - eat me."

Phoenix, you know they prefer men or animals. You must have really wanted to offend them. ;)

[Phoenix]

Here's some news for you: Spelling is no indicator of intelligence. Some of the smartest, genius types I've known in my life could not spell worth a damn. If you can't spell, no big deal. Be sure you have a secretary who can or use spellcheck. As far as writing on blogs, who cares? We all leave words out and misspell stuff and only notice it later. No one cares except the fools who have nothing to say.

I have an eidetic mind - otherwise commonly known as a photographic memory with sensor-round. Eidetic goes a little beyond 'photographic', but the upshot of it is I never misspell a word once I see it. Here's the strange thing - if a student asks me how to spell a word, I have to write it down for him. (If it's a long word.) So, if I misspell, it's a typo.

So, to all you sweeties who misspell - so? :)

And to all you bores who point out misspellings - eat me.

[mojo]

"Cleaning up" an image is quite different from editing-for-effect, I'd say.
Tempest: Teacup.

[imaginewhirledpeas]

Fred any idea where a fellow could get the PO build kit? I want to put my Colt back together.

[Fred Beloit]

Ahha. Heckler and Koch. Good company, though I'm a Para Ordnance man myself, at least for now. Sorry, I can't shed any light on the cook/koch controversy. Never took German. Thanks for explaining.

[imaginewhirledpeas]

Nah Fred, I was actually thinking of a heated argument I had w/ a friend from Chicago who tried to convince me that Heckler & Koch was pronounced Cook, Koch being (according to him) the German spelling of Cook. My mistake, made an assumption, sorry.

[Fred Beloit]

I do? The only Koch I had occasion to pronounce was Ed Koch, the former mayor of New York, and a self-described "Liberal with sanity". That was with the ch in botch, no offense intended. Are you thinking of Cook County, imagine?

[imaginewhirledpeas]

Probably the accent Fred since you pronounce Koch=Cook ;-)

[Fred Beloit]

Just occurred to me. English should be spelled Inglish. That's the way we pronounce it. Or is that just my Chicago accent?

[Fred Beloit]

SDB, there are few bad spellers in Spanish because that language is almost entirely spelled the way it sounds. Spanish spelling was controlled by an Academy. English "just growed" like Topsey, and as a result is a badly-spelled language. Witness: there, their, they're, to, too, two. In France there is an Academy, but for whatever reasons French is also badly spelled. French has vin (wine) vingt (twenty). Sound exactly the same, van without the n sound. There are lots more examples in both languages. The comedian who used to bust watermelons with a huge mallet, Gallagher, used examples in his act. My father was the bast speller I have personally known. He had an 8-year education. Parents died and he had to go to work. They used to teach spelling in schools many years ago. Now they go on field trips to far away places. But the difficulty with spelling is built into English.

[imaginewhirledpeas]

SDB: Don't be ashamed of being a victim of the public schools.

[southdakotaboy]

I do believe that one of my greatest comment posting sins is that I just don't pay attention to my spelling or take the time to spell check. We all have our flaws and that is mine. For those of you who have chosen to forgive me, thankyou. For those of you who have not, thppppt na nana na.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg

[imaginewhirledpeas]

Yeah Phoenix, got the pun and sorry I missed the b-day (belated well wishes). I was poking fun at the idea of fake photos, sometimes we must have a wee bit o' fun in our lives, lest we register as dems........
Sulivan had to drag dead bodies around a couple days in 90 degree plus heat. I'd rather work with photoshop any day

[Phoenix]

Ah if Thomas Sullivan could fake pictures at Gettysburg, why can't all combat photogs?

Posted by: imaginewhirledpeas | Monday, April 16, 2007 at 09:00

I wonder what version of Photoshop Sullivan used. I've still got the old one. Am too lazy to buy the new one. Well, that's not the truth: I still haven't figured out how to use all the goodies on Adobe 101. D'oh.

Peas,

I daresay doctored photographs have one hell of a lot more impact now than they did long ago. Worldwide exposure, you know. (Notice my pun? :) It is not a good thing if they're meant to slant the truth. It would be so good for us to see some GOOD.

[Phoenix]

Thanks, TK.... It's nice here, too. All the rain made the grass go nuts. But the wind is hellatious! 60mph gusts! Blow me right off the tractor. I wish it'd blow the top two inches off my grass. :)

Kelvin,

"...this beacon of backward thinking..." Called out to you, didn't it? And YOU answered! haw haw....

[templar knight]

Top of the morning, Phoenix. I hope your birthday was grand, and that you got lots and lots of presents. And I hope the weather is as good as it is here, quite cool for this time of year, but the sky is so blue and the air is so clear, it makes me want to get out there on the tractor. But alas, duty calls, and I must go. But I think I'll work a short day, and get home by 2:00. Have a good one, Phoenix.

[Kelvin]

Thanks mom. What would this beacon of backward thinking be without you.

[Phoenix]

Kelvin,

At least his mama didn't name him after the refrigerator.

Now how about adding to the topic instead of just making asinine insults as your participation on this blog.

[Kelvin]

It's a 'scandle' that you made it out of 3rd grade.

[southdakotaboy]

I have to say that in todays world it is next to impossible to believe anything printed in the msm any more. They have been rocked with scandle after scandle. If one wants to look for some sort of silver lining to this little trend, it has to be that they have to do this kind of thing to hide the truth. The more often they get caught doing this the more the American people are going to wakeup to the fact that the MSM is misleading them on major issues like global warming and the war in Iraq. There will be a backlash.
Most of the time after a major election there is a honeymoon period for the new majority to make some mistakes. Not this time, less than four months since taking over the Dems are in the hole just as bad as Bush. It won't take much for people to turn on the Dems in 08.
If Karl Rove gets his groove back the Dems are toast.

[imaginewhirledpeas]

lol Cindi, I needed the giggle.......dont bet your pay check that photos from every war since 1848 haven't had fakes among them. Isn't right, just human nature.

[Cindi]

Ah if Thomas Sullivan could fake pictures at Gettysburg, why can't all combat photogs?

Posted by: imaginewhirledpeas | Monday, April 16, 2007 at 09:00

here's your sign.............

[imaginewhirledpeas]

Ah if Thomas Sullivan could fake pictures at Gettysburg, why can't all combat photogs?

[Buzzy]

He could always go to Reuters, they don't seem to mind "altered" photos.