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Reuters drops freelance Lebanese photographer over image
Reuters ^ | 06 Aug 2006 | Reuters

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.


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To: PajamaTruthMafia

How deep is the rabbit hole?

The return of Green Helmet
http://www.eureferendum.blogspot.com/

The unluckiest woman in the World?
http://drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com/2006/08/extreme-makeover-beirut-edition.html

Another Hajj Photo That Should Be Retracted (Seriously)
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/189537.php


21 posted on 08/06/2006 3:04:58 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: paudio

You've nailed it; they didn't can him for doctoring an image, the canned him for being lousy at it.


22 posted on 08/06/2006 3:05:23 PM PDT by kcmt01
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

He broke the Reuter's code: Don't get caught.


23 posted on 08/06/2006 3:05:50 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("Sharpei diem - Seize the wrinkled dog.")
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To: SJackson

Why hasn't somebody posted the altered and unaltered photos ..??

The hubris of Reuters for assuming we are too stupid to notice their BIASED reporting.


24 posted on 08/06/2006 3:06:04 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Drive-By Media: Fake news, fake documents, fake polls)
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To: LibSnubber
and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under,"

Bad lighting conditions, huh? Just where the heck was this pic shot from, anyone know? Is there some vantage point that overlooks the city of Beirut?

25 posted on 08/06/2006 3:06:21 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla

They ACTUALLY have standards? I didn't know terrorists, their sympathizers or democrats had standards?


26 posted on 08/06/2006 3:07:06 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (Back home in Alabama after 14 years in hell of WA state.)
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To: SJackson

Someone needs to go capture quickly.

I saw a link to all his submissions earlier. Others of them had been tampered with.

I'm a dweeb and can't do it.


27 posted on 08/06/2006 3:07:30 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Dear Earth,

We're sorry we got caught.

Sincerely,
Reuters


28 posted on 08/06/2006 3:07:38 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (We gotta watch out for the Hellbazoo and the Hamas...)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia
"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,"

Yeh, right!

LOL

Is his photographer related to Baghdad Bob?
29 posted on 08/06/2006 3:08:03 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: RetiredArmy
I didn't know terrorists, their sympathizers or democrats had standards?

Joseph Goebbels'.

30 posted on 08/06/2006 3:08:18 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia
The photographer has denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying that he was trying to remove dust marks...

He did a good job - he covered them up with all that extra smoke. ;)

31 posted on 08/06/2006 3:08:44 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

It took news bloggers to bring it to their attention? They couldn't police it themselves?


32 posted on 08/06/2006 3:08:55 PM PDT by Exit148 (Founder of the Loose Change Club. Every nickle and dime counts!!)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

TAQIYYA!! --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqiyya

Adnaj Hajj is a taqiyya master. Taqiyya means telling lies to the non-Muslim

Adnaj Hajj will be replaced by another rotten propagandist. Or he'll get re-hired under another name. BECAUSE this guy has the right terrorist connections to get the right propaganda photos


33 posted on 08/06/2006 3:09:41 PM PDT by dennisw (Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia
When caught, Reuters has strict standards of accuracy that bar the manipulation of images in ways that mislead the viewer.
34 posted on 08/06/2006 3:10:13 PM PDT by umgud (Gov't needs a Department of Common Sense)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

That last set needs barf alerts...

Fake, Fake, Fake


35 posted on 08/06/2006 3:10:25 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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To: All

I have answered my own question - here is a comparison of both photos which is excellent:

http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/08/06/reuters-and-the-cloned-blown-smoke/


36 posted on 08/06/2006 3:10:30 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Drive-By Media: Fake news, fake documents, fake polls)
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To: Centurion2000
Reuter standards are much like the 11th Commandment : DON'T GET CAUGHT.

Kinda like ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC's et al....

37 posted on 08/06/2006 3:10:48 PM PDT by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: mewzilla

And what "dust marks" was stupid trying to get rid of? Dust marks off of digital pics or perhaps dust marks that were getting in the way of all the smoke he wanted seen in the pics?


38 posted on 08/06/2006 3:11:29 PM PDT by LibSnubber (Liberal democrats are domestic terrorists)
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To: mewzilla

10-4, roger that.


39 posted on 08/06/2006 3:12:17 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (Back home in Alabama after 14 years in hell of WA state.)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia
"Reuters and other news organisations reviewed those images and have all rejected allegations that the photographs were staged."

More work to be done?

40 posted on 08/06/2006 3:12:50 PM PDT by blam
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