http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/adnanhajj/ en-us Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:56:49 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769952/posts new information about the Reuters Photoshop scandal: Reuters fired a top photo editor for the Middle East during an internal investigation of two doctored photos from the Israel-Lebanon war that were published last summer. The editor was the second casualty of the photo manipulation controversy surrounding Reuters freelancer Adnan Hajj. Two of Hajj’s photographs showed obvious signs of digital alterations. Facing a storm of criticism last August, Reuters terminated its relationship with Hajj and pulled more than 900 of his photos from its archive. A Reuters spokesperson said Thursday that the company would not release the name of the editor... Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769952/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:56:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769544/posts LONDON (Reuters) - Reuters named a new chief photographer for the Middle East on Thursday and said it had tightened its editing procedures after the publication last year of two photographs that had been digitally altered. The measures were among several steps announced by David Schlesinger, editor-in-chief of the global news and information agency, following an internal investigation that he said had resulted in disciplinary action. The two photos, both of Israeli military action in Lebanon during the war there last August, were taken by a freelance photographer, Adnan Hajj. Reuters ended its relationship with Hajj following an initial inquiry... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1769544/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:38:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692710/posts IT'S bad enough that friends of Hezbollah terrorists could trick so many journalists with just a tall story and a rusty Lebanese ambulance. Worse is that some of those journalists seemed so eager to believe this ambulance was indeed wickedly blown up by an Israeli missile fired straight through the big red cross on its roof -- leaving not even a scorch mark. But worst is that even now that this hoax has been exposed, none of the countless writers and commentators who fell for it have admitted to passing on as fact the propaganda of terrorists. It is this... Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692710/posts#comment Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:28:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692682/posts The media war against Israel Early in the recent Lebanon war, the blogosphere revealed the fabrication of images by Reuters, whose reputation is now in shreds among those dwindling numbers in the western mainstream media who still acknowledge there is such a thing as the truth. Since then, the nature and scale of the various frauds perpetrated by the media during that war put those doctored Reuters pictures into the shade. The western media are no longer merely producing questionable professional practices in reporting a war. They are now active participants in it — and on the wrong side of... melanie phillips http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692682/posts#comment Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:31:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692049/posts International journalists discuss Lebanon war coverage; NYT bureau chief: Israel 'not interested in Lebanese deaths' A number of journalists claimed during a convention in Jerusalem Monday evening that Israel and the IDF were mostly to blame for the way the foreign media covered the Lebanon war. The panel of journalists, largely from the international media, convened to discuss their coverage of the war, at a conference arranged by the Media Line agency's Mideast Press Club. "Journalists' access to the battlefield is controlled exclusively by the IDF," said Simon McGregor-Wood, Chairman of the Foreign Press Association, and Bureau Chief of ABC... YNet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692049/posts#comment Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:08:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690446/posts Fauxtography Defender's Faux News Turns out that Greg Mitchell, the Editor & Publisher editor who has been attacking the blogosphere like a rabid ferret for pointing out the bogus news from the Middle East, has first-hand experience with staging news. (Hat tip: Confederate Yankee.) Since the press seems to be in full-disclosure mode these days, I want to finally come clean. Back when I worked for the Niagara Falls (N.Y.) Gazette (now the Niagara Gazette), our city editor asked me to find out what tourists thought about an amazing local event: Engineers had literally “turned off” the famous cataracts,... Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690446/posts#comment Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:01:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1689271/posts All Your Fakes Are Belong to Us A jawa video spoof on Beirut Fauxtography. Jawa http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1689271/posts#comment Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:34:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1689014/posts In Defense of War Photographers While some criticism is warranted, the current controversy over manipulated or staged pictures from Lebanon has been fueled by speculative, unfounded, or politically-driven charges that have tainted all of the brave photographers who cover conflict in the Middle East. By Greg Mitchell (August 22, 2006) -- With most others in the mainstream media silent, I rise here in support of the overwhelming number of press photographers in the Middle East who bravely, under horrid conditions, in recent weeks have sent back graphic and revealing pictures from the war zones, only to be smeared, as a... Editor & Publisher http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1689014/posts#comment Thu, 24 Aug 2006 03:09:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687274/posts BEFORE the American news media's collective shrug consigns the Reuters photo scandal to the nether world of shabby journalistic footnotes, one of this affair's wider implications is worth a moment's exploration. The incident began when Los Angeles-based blogger Charles Johnson and one of his readers detected a freelance photographer for the Reuters news agency manipulating pictures of the fighting in Lebanon. They, along with other online press monitors, soon turned up not only doctored images, but also numerous staged and falsely captioned pictures by various photographers — all designed to incite outrage against Israel. Reuters fired Adnan Hajj, the photojournalist... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687274/posts#comment Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:43:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1686336/posts It's the story journalistic elite would rather just go away. After Reuters' admission one of its photographers, Adnan Hajj, manipulated two war images from Lebanon after bloggers smoked out his crude Photoshop alterations, and all 920 of his Reuters photos were pulled, evidence of far more troubling photo staging and media deception in the Middle East continues to pour in. Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs (littlegreenfootballs.com) calls it "fauxtography." One of Mr. Hajj's photos was an iconic image of a dusty dead child with a clean blue pacifier clipped to his shirt, paraded by a corpse handler at the... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1686336/posts#comment Sat, 19 Aug 2006 08:01:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685905/posts Amid the controversy over certain pictures from Lebanon, a longtime student of war photography asks, "I'm not sure if the craft I love is being murdered, committing suicide, or both." By David D. Perlmutter (August 18, 2006) -- The Israeli-Hezbollah war has left many dead bodies, ruined towns, and wobbling politicians in its wake, but the media historian of the future may also count as one more victim the profession of photojournalism. In twenty years of researching and teaching about the art and trade and doing photo-documentary work, I have never witnessed or heard of such a wave of attacks... Editor & Publisher http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685905/posts#comment Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:49:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684548/posts It's the story that the journalistic elite would rather just go away. In the aftermath of Reuters' admission that one of its photographers, Adnan Hajj, had manipulated two war images from Lebanon after bloggers smoked out his crude Photoshop alterations, and all 920 of his Reuters photos were pulled, evidence of far more troubling photo staging and media deception in the Middle East continues to pour in. Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs (littlegreenfootballs.com) calls it "fauxtography." Reuters on Sunday withdrew an image of smoke rising from burning buildings after an Israeli air strike on the suburbs of Beirut on... townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684548/posts#comment Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:52:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685441/posts The first Photoshop war Lebanon war's doctored photos could be harbinger of photojournalism crisis Gal Mor The photo of an apparently new Mickey Mouse doll, resting on a ruined street in the Lebanese town of Tyre following an Israeli Air Force attack, took me back to a British TV show called "Drop the Dead Monkey," which aired in Israel about 15 years ago. One of the journalists in Channel 4's satirical show used to hang around battle zones with a teddy bear in his trunk and place it at disaster zones a short time before cameras began shooting, in order... Ynet News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685441/posts#comment Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:20:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685440/posts Many of the mainstream media apologists have conceded – and they had little choice but to do so – that many of the photographs of the Israelis’ response to Hez b’Allah’s act of war, were staged. The evidence of staging and Photoshopping is too public. The media allowed itself to be used to defame Israel, stir up sympathy for Lebanon and halt the advance into Lebanon. But the concessions of wrongdoing stop short with digital alterations. Media spokesmen are still in denial about the biggest media fraud of all: the dramatic dead baby display at Qana. EUreferendum has not given... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685440/posts#comment Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:13:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685207/posts When Reuters was forced to sever ties with free-lance photographer Adnan Hajj and remove more than 900 of his photos from its database earlier this month, long-whispered questions about the reliability of Arab stringers and freelancers came to the forefront. But while the widespread use of Arab locals in covering the Middle East raises many legitimate concerns, the Palestinian propaganda machine has enjoyed tremendous success over the years hoodwinking supposedly sophisticated Western journalists. And Hezbollah appears to have done the same over the past month. In short, almost nothing that is purported to happen in the Arab world can automatically... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685207/posts#comment Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:31:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684681/posts Thanks to some intrepid digging from commenters Lancelot and Harris at EU Referendum, another video of the events at Qana has been found. This is one that I have never seen before and really shows what was going on that day. It is truly a must see for anyone that believes that the photos at Qana were staged. It completely debunks the "our photographers do not set up photos" and "the rescuers were not holding up the children for photos" claims. Believe it or not, it is a link from Wikipedia of all places. Here's the direct link to the... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684681/posts#comment Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:43:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684704/posts He initiated uproar that exposed ethics breach The furor over a photograph began in such a quiet, ordinary way. Mike Thorson, a Janesville artist and part owner of a tool distribution company, was sitting at his computer on a Saturday, checking a few news sites after looking at his e-mail. On Yahoo, he came across a Reuters photograph purporting to show the smoky aftermath of an Israeli air raid on the Beirut suburbs. "As soon as I saw it something looked very strange," said Thorson, 39. What he found led to a story that raced around the globe and resulted... Milwaukee Journal Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684704/posts#comment Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:17:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684342/posts Lebanese rescuer 'Green Helmet' injured A civil defense worker who has drawn controversy for holding up the bodies of children killed in Lebanon said Tuesday he was lightly injured fighting a weekend fire sparked by an Israeli bomb. Salam Daher, dubbed the Green Helmet for the color of his civil defense headgear, said he was hit by debris Sunday when a bomb or missile fell on a building while he was helping to battle a fire at a gas station in the port city of Tyre. "I fell over when the bomb hit, and I got some scratches from debris... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684342/posts#comment Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:47:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1684061/posts Ray Robison has yet another example of staged photojournalism from Lebanon, a car with verses from the Koran strategically placed for propaganda effect: Al-AP at it again with staged photos. Ray comments: Notice this car has a wall-hanging positioned on the door. An Arabic reader tells me this board has verses from the Koran on it. Because Islam does not allow for images of the Prophet Mohammed, Muslims use verses to adorn their homes the same way some Christians use paintings of Jesus. If you want to make the argument that this wall-hanging got where it is by chance, then... Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1684061/posts#comment Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:46:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684054/posts Fox is now showing the German TV video of Qana showing Green Helmet Guy posing a dead child Click here to watch the Fox News video Here is the original FR post Here is the original video on YouTube: Green Helmet the movie director [Germany's NDR busts him in the act] Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684054/posts#comment Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:39:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683375/posts The recent discovery that a Lebanese freelance photographer, Adnan Hajj, had manipulated pictures he took for Reuters has raised questions about the standards of photojournalism at a time of widespread digital photography. The case also increased pressure on news photo editors, who select and edit thousands of photographs under deadline pressure each day, to detect digital alterations. "The Soviets had to have a whole department to doctor pictures," said David Friend, an editor at Vanity Fair and a former director of photography for Life magazine. "Now all it takes is a swipe of a mouse, and the kid down the... International Herald Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683375/posts#comment Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:44:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683365/posts AP Circles the Wagons Around Green Helmet Guy It’s utterly surreal. The Associated Press does a full court press, supporting the man they now call Salam Daher with a multimedia presentation packed full of distortions and outright lies: A Grueling Task in Lebanon. Watch the AP presentation here: A Grueling Task in Lebanon Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683365/posts#comment Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:17:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682519/posts Kopel: Were front-page photos staged? Images from Qana raise issue of whether media were manipulated. If you see a news photograph of the war in Lebanon, shot from within Hezbollah territory, can you be confident the picture and caption are accurate? Unfortunately, the answer is no. Earlier this week, Reuters fired photographer Adnan Hajj and withdrew his portfolio of 920 pictures after Little Green Footballs, The Jawa Report, and many other weblogs provided evidence that Hajj had used digital editing and other techniques to fake numerous photos of the Lebanon war. On July 31, the News and Post ran the... Rocky Mountain News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682519/posts#comment Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:02:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1681914/posts Adnan Hajj and Reuters photo editors put in play the basic credibility of the major media when they published a Photoshopped image exaggerating damage from an Israeli warstrike. Photoshopping conclusively established that Reuters puts out propaganda. So the next question is obviously, “how much?” The blogopshere already had been deconstructing what appeared to be highly contrived photos from the Qana ruins when Photoshopping came to light. Things like pictures of a poor dead dust-covered baby with a sparkling clean pacifier around its neck raised suspicions. Adnan Hajj was there as part of the press gaggle. The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1681914/posts#comment Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:50:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1681669/posts DAY 2 - THIS IS OUR 'TOP' POST UNTIL WE GET A RESPONSE FROM AP Page views since posting: 10,411 - First posted: 7.25 PM 10 August 2006. New post underneath this one. They hunt in packs, they film in packs and they lie in packs. And their bosses, sitting in their air-conditioned offices, thousands of miles from the action, back up their lies. And the liar-in-chief is Kathleen Carroll, senior vice president and executive editor for Associated Press. Unlike Reuters' who have at least admitted their photo-fraud and started their own internal investigation, Carroll's hastily-produced "rebuttal" of the staged... EU Referendum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1681669/posts#comment Fri, 11 Aug 2006 06:34:23 GMT