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Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut? [photo inside]
Little Green Footballs ^ | 8-5-2006

Posted on 08/05/2006 3:52:31 PM PDT by Hadean

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There are even cloned buildings in the smoke. Really lousy job.


41 posted on 08/05/2006 4:13:29 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: nmh
I know roto-rooter news is a tad baised

I think you're being unfair to Roto-Rooter here.

But Reuters let go of honesty a long time ago.

42 posted on 08/05/2006 4:13:44 PM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† | Iran Azadi | Appeasement=Capitulation)
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To: Dallas59

Adnan Hajj took the "Green Helmet Man " photos also.


43 posted on 08/05/2006 4:13:54 PM PDT by wolficatZ ("Shark Eats Troll"_______\0/____/|_______..)
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To: sionnsar

Just TRYING to be nice to roto rooter ;)

I don't want to get banned ;)


44 posted on 08/05/2006 4:14:44 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: docbnj

Here's the Yahoo News page with the Reuters photo on it, including credit:

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/060805/ids_photos_ts/r3101797657.jpg


45 posted on 08/05/2006 4:15:06 PM PDT by mwyounce
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To: Hadean
Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
46 posted on 08/05/2006 4:15:27 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: prion
But there's a reason so many Photoshoppers are jumping up and down here: this is a rookie mistake. It's easy to do, hard to overcome, and everybody who works with Photoshop has struggled with it. When you do this for a living, it SCREAMS out at you.

just because Reuters posts the pic with a story doesnt mean they actually took it. They could have bought it from a freelance journalist/photog who was trying to make a good pic in order to have future pics bought

47 posted on 08/05/2006 4:15:51 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: Dallas59
The same image at 4 times scale.


48 posted on 08/05/2006 4:15:52 PM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
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49 posted on 08/05/2006 4:16:03 PM PDT by humblegunner (If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.)
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To: DocRock
You again!?

"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

;>)

50 posted on 08/05/2006 4:16:06 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Sophomore dies in kiln explosion? Oh My God! I just talked to her last week...)
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To: mwyounce
Smoke billows from burning buildings destroyed during an overnight Israeli air raid on Beirut's suburbs August 5, 2006. Many buildings were flattened during the attack.

REUTERS/Adnan Hajj
51 posted on 08/05/2006 4:16:08 PM PDT by Dallas59
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Heh-heh! I saved it as a screenshot.

I've got it saved full size, but I didn't want to mash the thread with a hugh pic.
52 posted on 08/05/2006 4:16:20 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: humblegunner

I BELIEVE!!! LOOTER GUY!!!!


53 posted on 08/05/2006 4:16:49 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans
just because Reuters posts the pic with a story doesnt mean they actually took it. They could have bought it from a freelance journalist/photog who was trying to make a good pic in order to have future pics bought

Oh, I think that's extremely likely to be correct. But you get in trouble for running a Jayson Blair story, even if you thought it was real. Right?

54 posted on 08/05/2006 4:17:31 PM PDT by prion (Yes, as a matter of fact, I AM the spelling police)
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To: ChadGore

Wow, that architect must get a lot of business in Beirut!


55 posted on 08/05/2006 4:19:06 PM PDT by mwyounce
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To: Hadean

It looks to me as if much or all of the smoke may have been photoshopped in. Some of the buildings in the left background look odd, as well.

First, the plume of smoke on the left. The smoke is not consistent in the lower portions. Where the buildings show through the plume, there are just no pixels of smoke there at all, but the smoke is thick right beside the buildings. The clone stamp tool is so obvious in the upper portions.

Next, the smoke plume on the right. The lower portions are properly fuzzy, but in the upper portions, there are large square areas in the middle of the plume. That is an indication that at least that portion of the plume was added to the photo.

There are odd square pixel formations in the middle plume as well, primarily in the base.


56 posted on 08/05/2006 4:20:17 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: martin_fierro

LOL -- I'd wondered what had happened to Tourist Guy!


57 posted on 08/05/2006 4:20:46 PM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† | Iran Azadi | Appeasement=Capitulation)
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To: humblegunner

LOL didn't take looterguy long to show up.


58 posted on 08/05/2006 4:21:12 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: Hadean

placemark bump


60 posted on 08/05/2006 4:21:32 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
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