Boston bombing picture Photoshopped –New York Daily News caught red handed

Bomb inflicted wounds were taken out of a photo from the Boston bombings by the New York Daily News. A newspaper in the US has taken responsibility for doctoring a photo shot from the Boston bombing incident. Their front page photo displays a woman, lying on the street in a puddle of blood. Her leg was altered so her wounds weren’t exposed.

The edit was caught as the same photo streamed online which displayed the wound on the victim, while the New York Daily News made it magically disappear. "The Daily News edited that photo out of sensitivity to the victims, the families and the survivors," said Ken Frydman spokesperson for the Daily News, admitting that the image had been toyed around with.

Not everyone cares to agree with Frydman though. The first call out about the false photo was from blogger Charles Apple on the American Copy Editors Society website. He wrote “"If you can't stomach the gore, don't run the photo. Period." One photographer who claims to work for the New York Daily News wrote online "My colleagues are furious. It is, indeed, inexcusable.”

Debates have come to surface over whether a photo is too sensitive for viewers to glance at. Dean Aylmer, editor-in-chief for the Sydney Morning Herald said editors walked a fine line when selecting images to run alongside a story such as the Boston Marathon bombings but also made clear that you can’t filter the news, no matter how bad it is.