Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Young Social Innovators: Discussion
Ms Karen Murphy:
He remembered everything they said.
The background to it, obviously, is to sell things. The picture we found the most shocking was one of Prince George. It was on the front of US tabloid weekly. There was a before and after picture of him and it showed how they edited and Photoshopped it. Prince George at the time was perhaps a year old. They changed his eye colour, made his hair blonder and changed his skin, all for a perceived notion that this is what the American market wanted, whereas the picture in another market would be totally different. It just shows the lengths people will go to create this fake image.
To answer the question, get the information to them very early, so primary school is the key to this.