Wildlife fan? Nat Geo's got a project that's right up your alley! As reported in RealScreen, National Geographic Society and National Geographic Channels have announced the undertaking of the largest global television event and cross-platform initiative in the institution's history. Entitled Greatest Migrations, the project includes a seven-hour television mini-series, a 300+ page book, a children's book, iPhone apps, a lecture series and screenings, exhbits, and a series of National Geographic Expedition trips, among other elements. From RealScreen:
"The scope of this project draws upon all of the Society's passion for the natural world," said Michael Rosenfeld, president of National Geographic Television, in a statement. "We are using every resource at our disposal to produce and distribute this spectacular content in a coordinated effort across all media platforms. Many of the planet's great migrations are at risk, so the series is going to illuminate the fragile existence of these great animal movements and inspire a worldwide movement to protect them."
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Claims of posing, false captioning, and faking regularly appear in much the same way as they appeared in the 1930s. Clearly, Photoshop is not the cause of these controversies. They predate Photoshop and other modern means of altering photographs by more than a half century. But they allow us to ask an important question. What can we of the Great Recession learn from the photographs of the Great Depression?