| Set aside for a moment the journalistic misrepresentation on display in using a photo depicting air pollution to illustrate a story on the costs of meeting Kyoto mandated C02 reductions… |
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There’s a little more than lack of scientific accuracy going on here. Reader “JRB” wrote, wondering if there was evidence of photoshopping.
My initial reaction was “no”. But then I noticed the file name (top-kyoto2.jpg) ends in the numeral “2”. Now, I know what it means when I add a “2” to a file name, so I removed it to see if anything came up.
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How about that? It’s an uncropped version of the same photograph, the difference in overall hue impossible to miss. A little extra searching reveals that CBC used the blue-toned image in a similar formats here and here. |
So, with two dramatically different versions before me, the evidence that one has been altered is clear. Therefore, I think it’s fair to ask – who at CBC news made the decision to “dirt enhance” the image that accompanies the item on John Baird’s report?
And why?
Update – CityNews has footage of the smokestacks being demolished in 2006.
An unenhanced photo of the same site in July of 2005 (taken by reader andycanuck).
Stephen Taylor – “Not only is the photoshopping unethical, it violates CBC’s own Journalistic Standards and Practices.”
If comments and loading are slow to respond, be patient. The server is under fairly heavy load at the moment, with incoming traffic from several top level American blogs. Thanks for the linkage, folks.
(In response to those commentors who argue that there is nothing at all unethical about photo manipulation of this type, let us resume the discussion on the day that a news outlet lightens a stock photo of Barack Obama to accompany quotes from African American political activists that he’s not “black enough”.)
Nice work detective kate
Your amazing Kate. However do you find the time.
This whole global warming lie will go down in history as one of the biggest scams of the 21st century.
Considering it’s the CBC, the ‘Why?’ is self-evident.
I would argue that the ‘Who?’ is largely irrelevant too since the CBC is a monolith of group-think.
They’re predictable lemmings who long ago became unworthy of serious consideration as a news service. I think this far into the Internet cycle that they’re probably no longer worth a back-handed fisking.
Ignore them, and vote for whomever vows to cut their funding.
I agree with your sentiments on this, Kate……as I have on many before….But I have asked myself if you (or anyone else) actually sends the criticism to the CBC or the Press Council or anyone else….One drop of water on a stone may not have much effect, but repeated drops on the same stone may well wear it down. Just a thought….
Obviously the true image is the one with the bright blue smoke.
We distort, you inform.
They really are weiners aren’t they. I wonder if they eat them with a fork, like their dear leader.
If the Kyoto cultists had their way, the same steam and carbon monoxide, along with other crap, would still spew into our air and water.
But, oh happy day, we would have “sequestered” the CO2 into liquid form, as toxic a chemical as there is, and pumped it into mine shafts, using at least 50% of the GHGs “saved.” That, not developing non-carbon technologies, is showing environmental “leadership.”
No, that’s “saving the planet” in Mayday’s and Dionsky’s world. Sorry, when they do their personal cost benefit analysis, the electorate not going for the fake bravado.
Al Gore’s inconvenient march to the Presidency or CBC’s leftards won’t change that.
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I know someone who used to work at the CBC…
who might be able to answer that question.
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The cbc is so busy patting themselves on the back for not showing all the VT killers video they thought nobody would notice this.
How fast things change. Last week it was the NBC network taking credit for firing Imus for using a few words that supposedly insulted a few people. Then they turn around and copy information from a killer and broadcast it to the world. But, they did turn the original over to the authorities. Millions watched the video, and the wall to wall coverage. The same people upset over a few words.
To their credit, families are boycotting interviews on networks that aired the footage.
The first thing my son said, when the news of the massacre first broke was, I would hope that the killers name and photo are never mentioned on TV.
Don’t give him the publicity he wants. Send a message to the next guy, you will be ignored. There will be a next time.
Wondering about CBC’s fair and balanced reporting? Have a look at their ‘report’ of Baird’s news conference on the costs of Kyoto:
http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/vsu/wmv-hi/boag-kyoto070419.wmv
Judging from their reality check, they live in a different reality than I do!
…reminds me of the Matrix or Soylent Green where lens filtering was used to emphasize something.
One must ask the question- SO WHAT?
I guess since CBC altered a photo in a story that they ran, which really when you think about it for a nanosecond has very little to do with the argument, it’s considered as evidence to right-wing knuckle walkers that global warming doesn’t exist.
It’s just a picture, a representation of a sick environment. If you can figure out a way to photograph CO2, I’m sure CBC would be willing to pay you for the technique.
Speaking of photos, I found one of Baird as a baby
http://nicolas40.free.fr/fotos/image%20marante/big_mouth.jpg
http://www.junkscience.com...
The Great Global Warming Swindle looks to still be available for viewing at Junk Science.
The thing is, right there in the middle of the screen you will see a link, through YouTube, which will take you to a 2004 CBC documentary entitled “Global warming: Doomsday called off”. I’ve only watched the first 9 minutes (so far), but at first blush it looks pretty good.
Frankly, if the CBC wants to establish (re-establish?) itself as a credible news “emitter”, it should stick to doing stuff like this 2004 documentary… and cut out with the crapola it’s become renowned for in the last 25+ years.
Ironically enough, those smokestacks, if I’m not mistaken, are the “four sisters” of the coal-fired Lakeview Generating Plant in Port Credit. The plant has been closed and the stacks have since been demolished (June 2006). So also thank the CBC for running an “up-to-date” photo too.
The stacks seem to have been cropped out of the photo because they would have made the photo look fake, i.e., sepia looking.
Here’s a short video of the demolition:
http://tinyurl.com/2hsm25
albatros39a (1:44 AM)
Why do you link:
“…global warming…”
with:
“…CO2…”?
The 2 are exclusive of one another, haven’t ya heard? It’s been firmly established that “hockey sticks” are for hockey players; scientists don’t know how to use ’em.
See my comment above. Have a look at Junk Science. Then take some time to reflect, maybe.
I’ll stick with science; the CBC should adhere to that philosophy, too, when it comes to CO2 emissions in regard to global warming… forget the phony photographs.
The meat of this conflict is hidden because one team paints it all black and the other all white.
Amazing that our conservative government has the integrity to advance on enviro moves for the betterment of all.
BS and Magna moved away from the CPC when it was evident that Harper would not bar progress that will devastate the auto parts business.
The need for ICE engines and all the systems hardware that supports them will diminish over time as people discover that municipal governments and the informed are switching to hybrids and EVs.
Chevron can not be too happy about the blossoming of hybrids and EVs. They have tens of Billion$ invested in modern credit card fuel pumps and gas refineries.
While the changes to modern transport fuel methods will be gradual, anyone can see that oil company profits will diminish along with employment.
Change is always painful, true, but living wihtout advances is deadly.
Prices in refined fuels should be coming down. Only unrest in the middle east keeps up prices. Auto fuel efficiency has improved better than one third over the last 6 years and there has been an influx of alternate fuel vehicles. No wonder Acmahdinejad keeps Muqtada al Sader and the blackshirts motivated in Iraq.
The lessening demand has to bring down prices and deflate some of the steam in shrill ME mullahs. I can*t wait. = TG
(TG, 2:11 AM)
I think you’ve nailed it. In my bones I’ve always thought this is the ONLY explanation as to why reasonable politicians (i.e. Steven Harper) tend to go along with Kyoto, at least part way. Pretty hard for them to come out and say “We must forestall the middle east terror-financing network by becoming more energy efficient”. “Save Mother Earth!” is much more appealing to a wider audience, is it not?
You can eliminate all the vehicles in Canada and it won’t make any difference to our CO2 emissions.
The major emitter of CO2 in our country is Electricity. Just look at what has happened in the last 20 years or so. Computers…Not a great consummer of electricity in themselves but when you have 10’s of millions of them on day and night,,TV’s the average house now has 3 or 4.. Blacbkerrys-Cell phones.. It doesn’t take much power to keep them charged.. but look at the infrastructure, Cell phone towers, main interchanges, how about fridges in the garage to cool beer , and a bar fridge..The list goes on.
In Ontario, when Dalton McGuinty got elected he was going to shut down all Coal powered electrical stations by 2007. Well he hired John Manley to do a study and the main result was…”Yes Ontarions want the cleanest enegy possible but at the end of the day when they flick the switch they want to see the lights come on”
I do not accept the premise that Global warming is happening. There is too much science out there that refutes what is reported by the main stream Media.
I do beleive that when the IPCC sends out reports that they are backed by scientists the the majority of the scientists are Social Scientists ie. Politicians, Tree Huggers. etc…
But I do blame the present hysteria on the Greens ( Birkenstock Crowd) as they were the ones that caused this through the same scare tacticts that is used today to scare on Global Warming.
In the 60’s They put the fear into people about nuclear Energy. The result, electrical demand was met with Coal, or Gas, both CO2 emittitng industry’s.
Why do you think that France and Belgium don’t have a problem with CO2 today,, it’s probably because their electricity comes from non CO2 emitting nuclear power.
In Saskatchewan, We have the fuel, we are the OPEC of Uranium, Why do we export the raw material… We should be using it to fuel our electriciyneeds and possily our own tar sands.
I could go on and I will with future posts
RL
Some good points RL,
The North American grid can easily support the over night charging of 180,000,000 EVs with no undue stress on the system. We may not reach that vast number overnight.
Clean-coal Tech has been fine tuned and we should install it at every Coal-gen plant as well as exporting it to China, India, Asia, Rusia where dozens of plants come on stream monthly. = TG
Just remember. As far as the radical Left is concerned, this is not a way to reduce CO2 emissions. This is a way to introduce vegetarianism. Cows produce far more “greenhouse gases” and Suzuki already suggests that one thing you can do to help the environment is to eat meat-free once a week.
If that is a photo of the 4 sister smoke stacks, and if as mentioned they have been demolished, what a great idea for a political ad. A before and after pic of the site, with dates, and the message, we got it done in less than 2 years. The ad could start with Iggy saying We didn’t get it done.
albatros39a (1:44 AM)
I thought FAKED /MANUFACTURED NEWSPHOTO ILLUSTRATIONS was the job of Canuck Samantha Brezhnev and the gang at the “Dhimmi Show with Jon Sandinista”, or “This Horror Has 22 Mujahideen”; not people whose goal is “to be The Voice Of Canada To The World”.
One wonders why you weren’t as diligent to inform us that the wonderhomes in Kurdistan that you posted on your blog were in fact CGI.
albatross, global warming/climate change is not man made, there is more than enough science to prove this, it might be wise to read some of it.
alby, u leftard moron
1. we are knuckle draggers, not knuckle walkers
2. what was done here is fraud, a lie, an untruth, deceit
I do not know about you, but I have raised my children with the lesson that lying is bad, no matter how right you think your cause is
The CBC has and always be the biggest government funded lie in Canadian history.
Last night on the news David McGuinty said if we don’t act now on global warming the economic effect will be – get this – “greater than World War I, World War II, and the Depression combined”. Given that the media lets him say this sort of stuff without fact checking, I almost can’t blame him.
I’m in no way defending the CBC and its record of misrepresentation , but, being a graphic designer myself I can understand the process that goes into making a website. There may have been a time constraint on getting the story out, or there may have been a problem with the availability of up-to-date photos to use for the article. I have at times (especially in college courses with the tight deadlines and lack of funds that go along with that) took available photos or artwork and adapted to fit a certain format, layout, or colour scheme. In graphic and web design, the final product is often more important that the individual pieces…
For example, I need a picture of a city encroaching on natural habitat to go along with an article…however I can’t find what I need, so I might photoshop two separate elements together to make what I need.
It’s hard to say if anything sinister was at play here, or if it was just a case of what the designer thought looked good for the topic of the article. And as another poster put it, it’s pretty hard to take a picture of a bunch of CO2 over Toronto.
CO2 is tasteless, colourless and odourless when someone brings smog into a discussion on global warming you know they are a dingbat.
Despite how much money the taxpayers are fleeced to pay them.
the CPC wanted to fight smog the MSM’s said nooooooo.
Now they show pics of it to prove global warming?
loosers.
albatros obviously thinks that propaganda–which the taxpayer’s forced to pay for–is A-OK.
Talk about “knuckle walkers”–thanks, kingstonlad, for the “knuckle draggers” correction: albatros is a “brain dragger”–like in the slime. This person needs to grow some legs and get to higher moral ground.
This has been going on in the CBC since 1968 at the earliest, when a “scientific” prediction of Pierre Trudeau winning the Liberal leadership was issued during CBC’s coverage of the ’68 convention. It was based upon “data” that was made up.
You might very well be surprised when you find out who was behind the data manufacturing. (See the eleventh paragraph, with the Pierre Trudeau link in it.)
One wonders if Adnan Hajj has found work with the CBC. (Hajj is the “Reuters freelancer” whose photos of the Israel-Hezbollah conflict were digitally altered.)
Let Dion, Layton and Green Momma Lizzie rant on, ultimately the people can decide who’s spewing hot air on this scam.
We have to realize they know their theories are losing ground and they’re scrambling for more attention with the gloom and doom rhetoric.
Canada is a very small polluter and following along with Kyoto we stand to pay a heavy price. Kyoto means rewarding big polluters at our expense.
It very much looks like the Liberals,Greens and NDP are out to get Alberta which drives the economy AND IS THE HEARTLAND OF CONSERVATISM.
David McGuinty equating global warming effects as greater than the two World wars and the Great Depression combined shows how desperate they’ve become. They’re losing all credibility with statements like that.
Bev Oda should be on top of this. If there was something ‘unprofessional’ going on in any other federal minisrty, wouldn’t we be hounding the appropriate minister?We can’t count on media to call CBC in to account…
Anything that ‘appears’ to be ‘coverup’ in foreign affairs, Mckay is hounded, then makes a statement; agrigculture, Strahl is hounded…where is Oda?if someone puts up her addy here she should have a busy w/e. Every other Ministry is accountable…why does CBC get this free ride.I’m sick of it.
Further, do we have someone on our payroll at CBC to airbrush or doctor photos too? Bad enough to have to listen to their spin and try to wade through for truth, now we can’t even believe our eyes.
Photoshoping is fine as long as
1) It is clearly disclosed so any idiot can see it is made up
2) SO obvious, as in a parody, that you just know it isnt real.
This is deceptive and unprofessional from an organization that purports to be accurate.
The editor and the photoshopper should be fired, unless of course they were acting on a directive and then it is whoever told them to do that.
I look forward to the journalistic navel gazing on this one….not…there wont be a pip from anyone in the community.
So, if the true facts don’t fit the agenda well enough,
forget omitting context,
or highlighting some facts while omitting others,
or using misleading headlines,
or relying on handpicked “experts” who agree with the agenda, as authorities of the “truth”,
just…….well…..lie.
I guess desperate agendas require desperate measures.
Probably the most toxically hypocritical statement I heard was of some “environmentalost” theat Mothercorpse had on sound bite accusing Baird of “using scare tactics”. LOL 🙂
Kyoto has been one vast fear mongered agenda from the get go.
Really tome to pull the plug on CBC News.
biff…you hit the nail on the head…whose desperate agenda is this? CBC’s or the Libs? Why is their no distinction? This picture(makes me cough) and is clearly misleading.This in not ‘reporting’.
BTW: this is another incident that shows that CBC believes it has an audience of mindless sheep. To a degree I suppose they do because to get your info soley from this source is to be purosely mislead and manipulated….some “transie” editor/producer at the Mothercorpse certainly got their visual communication skills in cold war era soviet states.
Reagarding the Four Sisters at Lakeview, even when they were still standing I don’t believe you could come up with that picture – the angles are off and the Toronto skyline in the background is too large given the distance between the two.
Additionally, the photographer would have to be at a certain elevation to have taken the photo – I’m scratching my head trying to think of a nearby building and geographical feature that would suit the purpose.
I could very well be wrong, but my impression is that the smokestacks were superimposed.
I’m also having trouble believing they ever belched that much visible smoke, but I could be wrong.
Re: Beverly J. Oda.
The apple never falls far from the tree.
[…]
Throughout her life, Ms. Oda has been personally involved in the arts and theatre. Ms. Oda holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto. She was an educator in Mississauga for six years, teaching art, theatre arts and English. Before entering federal politics, Ms. Oda spent more than 25 years in the fields of public and private broadcasting. Ms. Oda began her broadcasting career at TVOntario in 1973. She moved to the field of commercial broadcasting in 1976. In 1995, she was appointed senior vice-president at CTV. From 1987 to 1993, she served as a commissioner with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). She has also worked as a consultant in the areas of government policies and regulation in broadcasting, multiculturalism, and diversity….-
(innoversity-com)
Kate said: “I think it’s fair to ask – who at CBC news made the decision to “dirt enhance” the image that accompanies the item on John Baird’s report?
And why?”
I think that’s a formal question for the CBC Ombudsman….
…..and he should get such questions every time we see bias, innuendo, imbalance, partisan axe grinding, disinformation, misdirection, contrived omission…in any item from the Mothercorpse…then again we would be cropping more than half their daily brodcast copy if this was persued. 😉
Furthermore, the emission from these stacks was 99.999% STEAM….WATER VAPOUR!
maybe its time for CBCpravda to reveal its hidden agenda, hidden behind that cloud of CO2(sic and sick)
CBC has taken quite the liberty with their photos…following the links Kate provided that is a huge over-glaring sun melting the those poor tiny ice bergs too.
Anyone have copies of their form letters that they have received from the CBC ombudsman in the past. Is he(she) an employee of CBC or an independent?
Oda remains in her bubble…
It’s just a picture, a representation of a sick environment. If you can figure out a way to photograph CO2, I’m sure CBC would be willing to pay you for the technique.
If I was to venture to take a picture of CO2 and relate it to global warming, I think I’d stop by a greenhouse – greenhouses pump in extra CO2 because it helps plants grow. So perhaps a picture of lush plant growth in a CO2-rich environment would work best. Or would a picture based on the actual science, not some misrepresentation of CO2 as a ‘pollutant’, cause you personal grief?