[TomGuy]

the fact that two of the images by photographer Adnan Hajj had been manipulated undermined trust in his entire body of work.

Not to worry, Adnan. As soon as things cool down, some lib media will give you a job. Look at all the lib plagiarists who have gone on to better things. Doris Kearns Goodwin, for example, still gets face time on TV, and Dan Rather has speaking engagements aplenty.

Just lay low for a while, Adnan.

[rod1]

Replacing "dust marks" with extra flares. Real cute Hajj. Maybe Israel will replace on of your buildings with a daisy cutter.

[Huck]

Another one bites the dust.

[Alberta's Child]

"Check this out" ping.

[Carry_Okie]

To Reuters' credit, it is evident that they wish to maintain at least the appearance of diligent accuracy in photographic reproduction.

Now, as to the way their photos are framed, the selective choice of subject matter, and ESPECIALLY what they selectively choose to ignore, well, that's fair game.

[b4its2late]

The damage has already been done.

[Leg Olam]

Doctoring pictures is one thing but theres no excuse for doing it poorly.

Re. the unlucky woman. Almost every scene shown of the bombing that comes out of Lebanon is somehow staged or set up to melodramatically highten the effect. Arabs love that stuff. Anyone ever watch Egyptian soap operas? They are hilarious.

[LIConFem]

"Manipulating photographs in this way is entirely unacceptable and contrary to all the principles consistently held by Reuters..."

Huh?

[NordP]

Great work, CSI FR!

....And yah wonder why this part of the World has conspiracy "issues;" they need to see proof that somebody's dead; or they run scared and back the wrong side because that side appears to be winning and they don't want to die after that side finds out they weren't backing them in the end?

We need to cut the good people of this region a break (i.e. Iraq and Lebanon). They've been living under pretty weird conditions--looking over their shoulders to keep their famiilies safe--for over 30 years, and we expect them to act rationally (under a system of laws) in a heartbeat. NOT gonna happen.

All the while, we need to be kicking butt and showing these good people that WE ARE THE STRONGER AND WE WILL BE THE GROUP LAST STANDING. That's when everything will really begin to change toward/for the better.

NordP

[null and void]

Why, so we couldn't look at them and see just how long he's been altering his photos???

[T'wit]

On the same basis of known falsifications (Walter Duranty, Herbert Matthews, Jayson Blair et al), all New York Times stories for the last 75 years should be withdrawn and burned. All "news" from CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, AP, WaPo, LATimes, TIME, Newsweek and their satellite media should be added to the bonfire (Jack Kelley, Stephen Glass). For good measure, we should consign all Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism (Janet Cooke and Duranty [again]) to the flames.

[Lurking in Kansas]

...withdrew all ...

LOL, too late, they are already out for all the world to see. Once something is online it can NEVER be "withdrawn".

FR, LGF, and bloggers of the world have outted the MSM dirty little secret. WE.ARE.ON.TO.YOU.

[Liberty Valance]

Breaking: Former Reuters photographer Adnan Hajj has been hired by Cindy Sheehan to cover her '06 "coffin dance" tour. Hajj will bring his own collection of servered limbs and a box of Lebanese rocks./s/

[Raycpa]

Reuters ended its relationship with Hajj on Sunday

I thought he was merely suspended.

[Grampa Dave]

That is a good first half step by Rooters.

When they remove all of the staged photos by The Green Helmet Islamo thug and other staged events, that will be another good half step.

[TASMANIANRED]

Just trying to prevent further scrutiny.

[observer5]

also the staged ones from Qana? hehe

[weegee]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

Reuters withdrew all 920 photographs by a freelance Lebanese photographer from its database on Monday after an urgent review of his work showed he had altered two images from the conflict between Israel and the armed group Hizbollah.

Um, this is an UNACCEPTABLE POLICY. It is designed to bury any evidence of further manipulation, NOT to correct a wrong.

[antiRepublicrat]

Good for Reuters! And we thought he'd just get a slap on the wrist. They found only one other so far, but I guess this saves Reuters the time of looking through all 920 to see if there's more.

[GunnyBob]

Speaking of media fakery, does anyone have an online copy of the TIME photo in the magazine's 31 July issue purporting to show a fire caused by "a downed Israeli jet"?

No jet was downed, of course; a fire was caused by a ZelZal-2 ballistic missile struck by the IAF on its truck prior to launch, which went into the air and came down on fire. Hez had a video of it and claimed they had shot down a jet; the video was quickly debunked but TIME is on Hez's side, so they ran the fake photo/bogus caption bit.