[Avodah] Geneivas Da'as

[T613K at aol.com]

: 
: Again, I do not see a problem with (1) omitting the picture,  (2)
: blurring the picture so that the alteration is self-evident, (3)  noting
: the deletion in a caption to the picture. All of which is equally  what
: their readership wants them to do -- but without the  misinformation
: about the Sec of State not looking like she's in the loop in  the raid.
: 
: Geneivas daas comes from the vast majority of pictures not  being altered
: in this way, and therefore the readership thinking that any  given picture
: represents reality. [--RMB on Areivim]
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From: "Moshe Y. Gluck" _mgluck at gmail.com_ (mailto:mgluck at gmail.com) 


I was thinking about what R' MB was writing about  this subject - that 
shinui
ha'emes is sheker - and wondering  .....
Thoughts?

KT,
MYG

>> how can it be geneivas daas  (i.e. from their readership), when this is
>>exactly what their  readership wants them to do?  [--R' Shaya Potter, on  
Areivim]





>>>>>
As RSP wrote on Areivim, even if the readership doesn't know exactly  which 
photo is altered, they know that photos are altered.  They know that  the 
policy of their newspaper is not to show photos of women.  No one is  pulling 
any wool over their eyes.
 
It is extremely difficult to see where there is any tzad of sheker  here or 
any halachic problem whatsoever.  We have already disposed of every  
possible argument:  They violated a copyright?  No, they did  not.  They led their 
readers to think that the Secretary of State  is not in the loop in 
Washington?  No, they did not.  
 
One of the things I am puzzled about is the complete lack of  worldwide 
outrage over the White House's falsification -- which really /was/  geneivas 
da'as ("Here are a bunch of important people in the White House  Situation 
Room watching the invasion of the Osama compound as it occurs" -- er  no 
actually, here a bunch of people looking at nobody knows what.)  At the  same 
time, there is world-wide feigned outrage over a photo in an obscure,  
small-circulation newspaper in New York.  My suspicion -- I say this with a  heavy 
heart -- is that our enemies want to make Jews look as bad as Arabs  ("these 
guys oppress women and these guys oppress women"), and some of our own  
fellow Orthodox Jews are mindlessly jumping on the bandwagon, aiding and  
abetting our enemies. 



--Toby Katz
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