Were front-page photos staged? [Images from Qana raise issues]

Rocky Mountain News ^ | August 12, 2006 | Dave Kopel

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Pinging the Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™ List

[COUNTrecount]

Seen this ?

http://www.aish.com/movies/PhotoFraud.asp

[Skooz]

Dadgum, dude.

Did you put all those keywords up there?

[onyx]

Those keywords yours too?

[radar101]

[freedumb2003]

Does anyone have that great thread from zombienet(?) that detailed the 4 identified types of photo fraud Rutgers has perpetrated?

[Not now, Not ever!]

Thanks for that, It's pretty good.

[PajamaTruthMafia]

Yes great recap. Here's a decent roundup I've been keeping:

The Reutergate scandal and issues with Beirut Photos in general.

There are 2 areas of concern: 1) Staging of photos and; 2) Doctoring of photos. Links are in chronological order.

RECAPS:

Excellent Video recap by aish.com

Excellent Video recap by Michelle Malkin

CNN's Anderson Copper Admits to seeing staging plus Germany TV video catches Green Helmet in the Act

ISSUE 1, STAGING OF PHOTOS:

"Milking it" (Critical look at Qana photos)

"Hezbollywood? Evidence mounts that Qana collapse and deaths were staged"

"Qana - the director's cut"

"Reuters calls the doctor, take 2" (Powerline blog exposes yet another suspect group of photos same damage reported as new 12 days apart).

"Extreme Makeover - Beirut Edition" (Drinking from Home exposed more photos. This time, the same woman is shown losing her home first in Southern Beirut on 7/22 and then in the "suburbs of Beirut" on 8/5)

"Shaking the Dead" (Confederate Yankee shows staged photos of a "rescue worker" grasping a hand protruding from the rubble for both Reuters and AP)

"The Passion of the Toys" (Slublog has a collection of all the posed stuffed animals among the ruble)

"Lights, Camera, Action!" Red Cross workers pose for fauxtos

Green Helmet the movie director [Germany's NDR busts him in the act]

ISSUE 2, DOCTORING OF PHOTOS

Little Green Footballs uncovered an obviously doctored photo by Hajj (Beirut Smoke)

It was quickly picked up here on FR

Reuters admits the first photo (Beirut smoke) was doctored and suspended Hajj

A second doctored photo (F16) was identified by Jawa

Reuters admits the second photo was also doctored, fired Hajj and withdrew all 920 of his photographs

[Screamname]

That photo with the smoke is so incredibly obvious I don`t see how anyone could miss it. But Reuters initially used it didn`t they? That says a lot about them.

[PajamaTruthMafia]

The keywords come from the other posts on this subject that people added as they went along. Especially "The Passion of the Toys" and the original Reuters Fauxtography post. (see roundup above)

[onyx]

LOL -- they're very good!

[OSHA]

Bump and bookmark.

[Milhous]

FYI Green Helmet Guy recently got an MSM makeover to morph into . . . wait for it . . . Blue Journalist^TM Guy:

[EverOnward]

bookmarked

[potlatch]

NAA, NEWSPAPERS DON'T LIE - DO THEY?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

How about this photo?

The caption says that this kid was pulled out from the rubble of a destroyed building. She's as clean as the spotless throw-down stuffed animals that pop up in the scenes. There's not a speck of concrete dust in her hair and her pink shirt couldn't be any cleaner. And the crusted dried blood around her mouth was added after pulling her out of the rubble.

Original web link here: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060801/481/a2b0c08be4784a4c90cbfe4decfa8266

[PajamaTruthMafia]

Go here, to post 9 and click on Qana the Director's cut and you'll see how those were staged.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682519/posts?page=9#9

[Between the Lines]

I love the caption that goes with that pic:

A Lebanese rescuer carries the body of a young girl recovered from under the rubble of a demolished building that was struck by Israeli warplane missiles at the village of Qana, near the southern city of Tyre, Lebanon, Sunday, July 30,2006. The Associated Press and two other news agencies on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2006, rejected challenges to the veracity of photographs of bodies taken in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, strongly denying that the images were staged. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Note that the "rescuer's" clothes are clean too, even after digging through all that rubble.

[Leisler]

(Al Reiuters)Burnt car bombed by five Israeli jets and 7 Jew helicopter gunships. The car was carrying crippled, deaf children from the Peach Tree School of Classical Music in Tyre. 18 children were killed. The driver, Miss Yasmin attempted to save 7 other unwounded children, but they were all killed in a follow up ambush by Zionist commandos wearing NY Yankee ballcaps and eating pork-chop sandwiches, according to civil defense workers.