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When editorial credibility gets a kick in the smoked brisket
Jack Howard, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Central Jersey | NJ | USA | Posted: 4:36 PM on 04.14.11 |
->> So, this is amusing/amazing me on so many levels today.
1: It's a photo retouching scandal expose.
2: It involves Vegans passing off retouched microstock photography of animal-based nummies as Vegan product, which is such delicious irony!
3: It involves microstock: always good to get photog types good and bent.
4: Reader comments pointing it out are apparently getting deleted from the site.
5: I just had slow-smoked pulled pork BBQ burritos for a snack right before reading this.
http://www.quarrygirl.com/2011/04/13/rant-veg-news-is-putting-the-meat-into.../
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David A. Cantor, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Toledo | OH | USA | Posted: 5:06 PM on 04.14.11 |
| ->> "Where's the beef?" |
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Jeff Gammons, Student/Intern
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Niceville | Fl | USA | Posted: 6:37 PM on 04.14.11 |
->> "5: I just had slow-smoked pulled pork BBQ burritos for a snack right before reading this."
They were "vegan". Right? |
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Landon Finch, Photographer
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Colorado Springs | CO | USA | Posted: 6:46 PM on 04.14.11 |
->> "They were "vegan". Right?"
Yeah, I saw the burritos in the VegNews just last month! ;-) |
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Doug Strickland, Photographer
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Chattanooga | TN | USA | Posted: 7:18 PM on 04.14.11 |
| ->> Oh no! Next we'll find out that the editors of VegNews aren't really vegans at all! Their portraits were just photoshopped to look vegan! |
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Luke Johnson, Photographer, Student/Intern
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St.Petersburg | FL | USA | Posted: 11:46 PM on 04.14.11 |
| ->> Speaking of brisket, they had some mighty tasty brisket in the media dining tonight at the Trop. |
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Eric Canha, Photographer
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Brockton | MA | United States | Posted: 12:51 PM on 04.15.11 |
| ->> Another case study on how NOT to handle a PR nightmare as it unfolds. The anger has spilled onto their facebook as well. |
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Michael McNamara, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Phoenix | AZ | USA | Posted: 2:01 PM on 04.15.11 |
| ->> Yeah....a long, drawn out explanation of why they did what they did without saying "Sorry." Not smart. |
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John Korduner, Photographer
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Baton Rouge | LA | United States | Posted: 5:14 PM on 04.15.11 |
| ->> Isn't this a commonly accepted practice? I thought it was normal to photograph colored butters instead of ice cream for sundae photos, etc. |
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Michael Fischer, Photographer
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Spencer | Ia | USA | Posted: 5:31 PM on 04.15.11 |
->> Actually John, it's mashed potatoes for the ice cream iirc.
As for VegNews, you can colored them "unemployed". It would have been so simple to tell the truth and say "We're sorry.."
As Eric points out, a textbook example of how to NOT handle it. I guess arrogance has little to do if you are a meat eater or not.
Wonder about what a out of work former VegaNews editor does for their next job since they won't be one of the 50,000 McDonalds will hire.
Somewhere, Clara Peller is laughing her butt off.... |
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Mark Peters, Photographer
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Highland | IL | USA | Posted: 6:02 PM on 04.15.11 |
->> " We would love nothing more than to use only
vegan photography shot by vegan photographers, and we hope to be there soon"
Running it through the BS to English translator yields.....
"We're going to keep doing what we've been doing." |
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John Korduner, Photographer
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Baton Rouge | LA | United States | Posted: 7:03 PM on 04.15.11 |
| ->> Next thing you know people, will be surprised if the people they meet on dating sites look nothing like the pics they see online; or, Whoppers and the people making them are less disturbing in TV land. |
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Curtis Clegg, Photographer
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