(I'm a little late to the game, but had to do a full reinstall (from scratch, reformat and all) of XP over the weekend and still not up to speed yet)
Posted on 08/06/2006 2:51:43 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
LONDON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Reuters, the global news and information agency, told a freelance Lebanese photographer on Sunday it would not use any more of his pictures after he doctored an image of the aftermath of an Israeli air strike on Beirut.
The photograph by Adnan Hajj, which was published on news Web sites on Saturday, showed thick black smoke rising above buildings in the Lebanese capital after an Israeli air raid in the war with the Shi'ite Islamic group Hizbollah, now in its fourth week.
Reuters withdrew the doctored image on Sunday and replaced it with the unaltered photograph after several news blogs said it had been manipulated using Photoshop software to show more smoke.
Reuters has strict standards of accuracy that bar the manipulation of images in ways that mislead the viewer.
"The photographer has denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying that he was trying to remove dust marks and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under," said Moira Whittle, the head of public relations for Reuters.
"This represents a serious breach of Reuters' standards and we shall not be accepting or using pictures taken by him," Whittle said in a statement issued in London.
Hajj worked for Reuters as a non-staff freelance, or contributing photographer, from 1993 until 2003 and again since April 2005.
He was among several photographers from the main international news agencies whose images of a dead child being held up by a rescuer in the village of Qana, south Lebanon, after an Israeli air strike on July 30 have been challenged by blogs critical of the mainstream media's coverage of the Middle East conflict.
Reuters and other news organisations reviewed those images and have all rejected allegations that the photographs were staged.
The other day a Freeper posted that he was almost 100% sure that the photos had been doctored!
Sure enough!
I like it:
"Has the photo been reutered?"
Reutergate?
What's the frequency, Reuters?
i am sure he has been seeing this sort of enviroment enough that he no longer realizes that the western readers who see this find even the undoctored photo makes a notable impression.
Your theory makes more sense than anything i have read elsewhere.
(I'm a little late to the game, but had to do a full reinstall (from scratch, reformat and all) of XP over the weekend and still not up to speed yet)
Look at these 2 in particular. Same car in 2 different locations.
Take a look at #206 and #207 above...
Where did you find those? Definately looks like the same car to me (same side of the car too). I agree.
Take a look here:
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/014929.php
Also, did you notice in the top photo you can kind of make out a steel tower (like a cell tower) behind the car and in the bottom photo you see a complete steel cell tower and a guard tower.
Take a look here too. More obviously staged photos for AP and Reuters:
http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/189683.php
I wonder if it was moved digitally or physically? Perhaps to make the running man shot more compelling or perhaps to obscure the guard and cell towers?
There must other pictures he worked from here.
Yup. I just spotted that too. Why don't you send it to Powerline. They assumed it was just staged while it looks more like photoshopped...
If you don't want to send it there, at least start a new thread.
Take a look at #207 on...
I just sent it to them. I added your FR handle along with mine in signing. Hope you don't mind.
No problem. Thanks.
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