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| Fox photo in question |
The CHAZ was established after BLM protestors forced Seattle police out of the East Precinct building this week.
“I think it’s disgraceful propaganda and terribly misrepresentative of documentary journalism in times like this, when truth-telling and accountability is so important,” Kenny Irby, a photojournalism ethics educator and consultant, told The Seattle Times. “There is no attribution. There is no acknowledgment of the montage, and it’s terribly misleading.”
On Friday, Fox News's site featured a photo of a man with a military-style rifle standing in front of what appears to be a smashed retail storefront.
This photo, the Seattle paper claimed, was "actually a mashup of photos from different days, taken by different photographers — it was done by splicing a Getty Images photo of an armed man, who had been at the protest zone June 10, with other images from May 30 of smashed windows in downtown Seattle."
Fox News allegedly altered another image as well, adding the gunman to a photo that has a sign in it reading, “You are now entering Free Cap Hill.”
Fox News in a statement told The Seattle Times, “We have replaced our photo illustration with the clearly delineated images of a gunman and a shattered storefront, both of which were taken this week in Seattle’s autonomous zone.”
However, the original photo was taken on May 30 in Minneapolis, not in Seattle this week like the network's statement suggests, according to the newspaper.
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