"All you need to do is change the caption."

And, of course, believe the people telling you the tale.

We're all so dumb.

Errol Morris on "Photography as a Weapon" - Boing Boing:

"Documentary film maker Errol Morris has a fascinating piece in the New York Times about 'Photography as a Weapon.' In it, he interviews Hany Farid, a Dartmouth professor and expert on digital photographic fraud.

Errol Morris: [D]octored photographs are the least of our worries. If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don’t need Photoshop. You don’t need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don’t need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.


The photographs presented by Colin Powell at the United Nations in 2003 provide several examples. Photographs that were used to justify a war. And yet, the actual photographs are low-res, muddy aerial surveillance photographs of buildings and vehicles on the ground in Iraq. I’m not an aerial intelligence expert. I could be looking at anything. It is the labels, the captions, and the surrounding text that turn the images from one thing into another."