Just came across your blog. Very nice work. Like it a lot.

Regarding the photoshopped limb... kinda makes you wonder what else gets photoshopped out (or in), doesn't it?

There is a second possibility - the newspapers who didn't PS it out didn't notice it.

Here's hoping this will drag the Fleet Street standards toward reality. At first it felt like being the only one at a professional wrestling match who cares that it's fake.

Yes, Brian! And kudos to you for tipping me off in the first place! Today's Fark link (Thanks to Mike!) has gotten about 18,000 pairs of eyeballs onto the story. Poynter, however, remains silent.

I brought this up in an ACES seminar on ethics and the consensus was: don't talk yourself into thinking it's OK to do that. And when you find yourself talking yourself into doing something that gives you the willies, you really need to act.

I noticed the same thing when I saw a unretouched version in a Swiss newspaper first and then the same detail missing in another paper. Thank you for this great overview!

Umm... Look at the 'limb' carefully. Very carefully. Note the bundle hanging out of one side. Note the other side has no such bundle. Compare the size of the unbundled side to people around.

There's a distinct possibility that this is a head with the vein/arteries and so forth hanging out.

I can't believe nobody else spotted what is potentially a *head* on the front page. Look at the dimensions.

yeah - i guess it doesn't look enough like a sex organ ( of any kind - man or beast ) or they ( The belgians ) may have enhanced it and then sold mementoes and action figures of it .