My newspaper occasionally posts fashion/style photos. Am I to assume none of those are manipulated in any way? Am I to care?
Not caring about the royal family, this impresses me as some celebrity puff piece. To claim some important standards of journalistic integrity are involved impresses me as somewhat of a stretch.
It is modestly amusing when folk of considerable wealth and power act amateurishly, but that is about it.
I remembered the hands incorrectly. Yet, this photo editor explains the faulty use of mobile photo editing on the image.
At least 90% of everything posted on the Dope consists of nothingburgers. Do we really want to draw a line between nothingburgers and somethingburgers? What’s on the nothing side won’t be pretty.
Hey! I take umbrage.
My nothingness(burgers) is quite cute. TYVM😊
It reminds me a bit of SecDef Lloyd Austin’s recent public image problems. It’s perfectly agreeable to take a step back from professional responsibilities and, especially, the public eye for health or other personal reasons. However, it is the FURTHER attempts taken by both to conceal, obfuscate or misdirect that has us talking about it at all. Streisanding is a great term for it.
Frankly, I expect better lying from our leaders, whoever they may be.
Remind me, who is Kate Middleton again? Didn’t she have something to do with the British royal family?
Maybe the vaunted Royal PR Department just isn’t what it used to be. Maybe the staff’s been cut (part of Charles’s Slimming Down of the Monarchy?), maybe there’s been a lot of turnover and vacancies, maybe somebody’s been out on medical leave forever? Maybe there’s Malicious Compliance going on? I find it not impossible to believe that Kate did the edit job herself, and the one person in the PR office that week just shrugged and said “eh, whatever.”
The Royals are definitely not what they were, and maybe PR professionalism is simply one more standard they’ve let slip.
In Kate Middleton’s apology, she never actually states that she was the one who edited the photo.
Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing. I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused. I hope everyone celebrating had a very happy Mother’s Day. C
The plot thickens…
She’s doesn’t even say she’s Kate, just a “C”. Maybe it was Charlotte. Or Charles. Or Camilla.
Back during the 1988 Presidential campaign the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Style section editor got himseld into a firestorm when he ran a photo of stylish Kitty Dukakis side-by-side with a photo of a well-dressed but not what you’d call stylish Barbara Bush.
The editor kept explaining that he needed color photos that could be cropped to the same size and met other technical requirements and he chose the best photo of each woman out of the available supply. Needless to say, the explanation did not satisfy Bush supporters who would have been delighted with a retouched photo of Mrs. Bush.
That answer is enough for me.
My tabloid self says the palace staff wrote it.
I’m sure the speculation has already started.
The latest out of the tabloids is that Wills has supposedly been cheating on Kate with someone called The Marchioness of Cholmondeley, which sounds like it should be one of Bertie Wooster’s accidental fiancees.
I would hope the Prince wouldn’t be so stupid as to repeat the exact same mistakes his dad made when he was that age, but apples and trees and so forth.
Ditto
AFAIK, William and Kate chose each other. Chuck & Di were about the closest thing to an arranged marriage without it actually being one (the difference being that they knew each other beforehand).
For fashion content, retouches and blemish removals are allowed, but it will depend on newspaper policy. Here is the New York Times policy for their fashion magazine, for instance. Personally, when it comes to fashion content, I do not expect editorial standards for photography there. In a fashion magazine, anything goes. In newspaper content, it’s a bit more grey.
I thought they were black and white and red all over? No, that was the hemophiliac zebra …
I’m still putting celebrity PR photos as less journalism than fashion is. And that’s what that was. Accurately put out as the PR photo the royals have distributed. No more no less.
You can put it wherever you want. I’m just stating what the ethical rules are for wires.
My guess is that she has fibroids and they attempted a fertility sparing procedure on her uterus. Some of those surgeries have a much more difficult recovery than the average hysterectomy, especially if it has to be an open procedure rather than laparoscopic, at least according to the folks on r/fibroids on reddit.
No pics, but he spent so much time on it, I felt like I’d been staring it right in the…eye, so to speak. He made a little joke about getting frost nip at the North Pole on his South Pole. At least the lad has a sense of humor.
This cracks me up. Too funny!
