Sir, – Last week France passed a law requiring companies to admit when models have been digitally airbrushed. The law stipulates that images of models that have been digitally altered – to appear thinner or augmented in any way – must clearly indicate in text that the photograph has been “touched up”. Without this disclaimer, employers face fines of up to €75,000, imprisonment or both.
I suggest that this law should also apply to politicians in this country who are beginning to appear on posters for the forthcoming election “touched up” and dissimilar to the harangued TDs we are used to seeing over the last five years of austerity. Any politicians found to have had their photographs digitally manipulated and without a disclaimer should be fined and discredited. Yeah, right! – Yours, etc,
TOM McELLIGOTT,
Listowel,
Co Kerry.