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Examples Of Contextual Misrepresentation In The Media

Some examples of a photo being misrepresented in journalism.

Andy Doorty
Dec 05, 2017
University at Albany, SUNY
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Catherine Pearson wrote this article for Huffington Post to shed light on abortion laws in Missouri.

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This photo used by the Huffington Post is a Getty Image that is located in South Africa, not Missouri.

Unfortunately, this photo has been misused. The only attribution under the photo is for Getty Images. This created a perception for the reader that the cover photo is directly connected with the title. This woman is not a patient waiting for an abortion in a Missouri hospital; rather, she is located in Africa.

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This photo was credited to Portra Images. Portra only show up in photos related to Getty Images. They have 648 credited photos on Getty and the locations range from similar photos in South Africa to pictures in Iceland.

There is no credit for a photographer. This process is very hard because this photo has been used so much. PBS used it twice in just over a year. The first article was about suicidal patients waiting ages for their surgeries to be performed, and the other is a listicle about what patients should ask their doctors in a hospital.

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The photo itself is everywhere. A Google Image search of the picture show that over 100 articles used this picture for a cover photo. Some of the search results do show this image connected to a YouTube video and one article on Yahoo seems to have taken the picture off of the story. Still, this image has been used on websites such as Time, Verywell and Yahoo Finance.

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