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Who cares if he was late and they merged pictures, the ordinary mug punter on the street will not give two hoots about it. The opposing MP's are making more of it than it is. I bet you if they went out on the streets of Manchester and asked who cared they would be shocked by the outcome
Besides, isn't this the guy who says the Red Arrows must not fly at the 2012 Olympics because they are too british and would cause offence......
Who cares if he was late and they merged pictures, the ordinary mug punter on the street will not give two hoots about it. The opposing MP's are making more of it than it is. I bet you if they went out on the streets of Manchester and asked who cared they would be shocked by the outcome
Besides, isn't this the guy who says the Red Arrows must not fly at the 2012 Olympics because they are too british and would cause offence......
I think you may be missing the point here, it may seem in this particular instance unimportant, its simply the principle of faking a picture that is presented as fact, which is patently wrong regardless as to who it is or if the purpose is good, or not as the case may be.
In this case no harm would appear to be done but if left unchallenged clears the way for more sinister faking of pictures.
The man may very well talk out the back of his trousers, but that is not the issue.
I think that cloning in someone as important as a government minister in a picture featuring several members of parliament and then issuing it as a part of a press release is asking for trouble, no matter how unimportant the subject matter.
The plain truth is that with such advanced digital image manipulation tools at anyone's disposal, visual truth can easily be massaged and this should be very seriously dealt with when presented as news or even fact-based entertainment imaging where the reader or viewer isn't aware or intended to be made aware that such changes have been made.
Have to agree with Pops here, not the best job in the world but would certainly fool the majority of the public, yes No harm done here but don't forget this has been going on for a long long time even before the advent of digital, people in the past have had deceased parents and grandparents added to their family/wedding photo's, very difficult and expensive before digital, but it still happened. The point here is really about distorting the truth and the possible disastrous consequences for inocent parties. Just think about the things that are happening in schools thee days, bullying etc: and the super imposing of the teachers faces onto porn and nude bodies, these are then posted on the net. Not very nice for the children/teachers concerned. Also it is now very difficult to get police/courts to accept photographic evidence from lay people, sure is causing problems all round.
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