Daily Telegraph denies digitally altering image of van pictured in child abduction article
News Corp’s Sydney tabloid The Daily Telegraph has insisted it did not alter a photograph featured on its front page this morning, despite the printed image appearing to be missing the faint outline of an ‘S’ which can be seen in a version on its website.
The front page of the News Corp tabloid this morning features image of Bill Spedding, a person of interest in the case of missing toddler William Tyrell, standing next to his van which carries the sign PEDDO’S HIRE. His company is called Speddo’s Hire.
A close up photograph of the image as it appeared on the front page of this morning’s The Daily Telegraph
The same image on the web version of the article shows the faint outline of an ‘S’ which had been peeled from the van.
To be fair, once the image has been through profiling, UCR, and GCR, it’s unlikely that there’d be anything left of that “S”. Would be interesting to run the same file through our workflow and RIPs, see how it turns out.
To be less fair, “fucking lol”.
Following on from above… Take into account the minimum highlight dot for newsprint which would have wiped out any slight difference on top of newsprint not being pure white, you can say goodbye to any of that area. You citizens of the digital world should probably consult some old school print professionals before making wild assumptions.
Surely the main issue is that this guy doesn’t even seem to be a prime suspect, and the Tele is plastering his image all over their paper? Awful, populist drivel.
The van appeared in this evening’s news bulletin and it does indeed appear the “S” was already removed from the decal, not photoshopped.
So someone in Port Macquarie removed a letter from a work van and it’s the Tele’s fault? Is that the story?
It seems as if someone in the town pulled the “S” off as a joke. If this man is innocent, I hope he gets some major compensation for his loss and pain. If he’s guilty he must know that it won’t be long… What a tragedy for WIlliam regardless.