Pic looks legit to me.
Posted on 07/19/2011 5:50:18 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
The flood photo that isn’t
AP news service issues ‘kill notice’ for image from North
July 20, 2011
North Korea claimed that seven North Koreans are walking in a flooded street in this July 15 photo North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency took, which it provided to AP. In the photo, residents walk in knee-deep water, but photo experts suspect the photo of being retouched, citing the relatively dry clothes of the residents as evidence. [YONHAP]
The Associated Press has withdrawn a photo depicting flooding in North Korea, released recently by the reclusive communist country’s news service, claiming that signs of digital manipulation were detected.
The American news wire agency transmitted the photo to its members and customers on Saturday. “In this photo taken Friday, July 15, 2011, and released Saturday July 16, 2011, by the Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service, residents wade through a flooded street in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea said heavy rains flooded farmland, destroyed homes and caused some deaths,” the AP said in the caption.
The Korean Central News Agency is a state-run mouthpiece of the North.
The day after the photo’s release, the AP issued a “kill notice” to tell subscribers that AP decided to withdraw the photo and no longer stood by it.
“The content of this image has been digitally altered and does not accurately reflect the scene,” AP said in the kill notice. “No other version of the photo is available.”
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The story doesn’t go into motives, but I will:
Communist states need to invent phony natural disasters to explain their failures.
They couldn’t have actually found a creek for them to go wade in? Chi-intzy!
I think they got some of the government office staff. Peasants would have run them off.
Just like the ChiComs didn’t get some guys to actually stand on a road for a photo-op.
Pic looks legit to me.
Yet there will be no questioning of Hussein's PDF birth certificate.
I thought it might have been done by the same crew that came up with BHO’s birth certificate.
Sympathy plus an explanation for the crop failure which will kill millions with or without outside food aid. The folks in charge are evil.
The picture is so bad it is silly. It LOOKS lide the figures were pasted onto the water. The surace of the water is obvioulsy in motion but there is no disturbance where the bodies connect with the surface of the water. It seems to be simple cut and paste.
Once again Freepers are treated to the many incarnations of “the Looter Man”. It is one of the funniest series of pictures I’ve ever seen here on FR, or anywhere else. This one will become a classic as well. (:^}
Damnnn I wonder what happen to Looter guy
He is in NORTH Korea LOL!
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