Posted on 01/18/2007 7:56:49 PM PST by george76
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 who was dismissed.
In all of Reuters’ statements and reports on the incident, they’ve never mentioned that a “top photo editor” was also fired.
Why were they secretive about this, and why won’t they release the editor’s name?
(Excerpt) Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com ...
Here's a 5 minute clip of the 72 minute movie (from 2005) is on this film festival website:
http://fest06.sffs.org/films/film_details.php?id=83
(San Francisco International Film Festival)
http://www.context.tv/en/productions/media/calling_01.mov
Someone ping LGF to this information, it may help him in researching Reuters.
Where possible, ask your regional or global picture desks to perform any required further Photo-shopping on their calibrated hi-resolution screens...
(snip)
...All photographers should understand the limitations of their laptop screens and their working environments.
"If someone is dismissed but nobody knows who was dismissed, is anyone dismissed?"
Depends
Apparently Reuters freelancer Adnan Hajj produced hundreds of photos...
We are still waiting for them.
Her husband ''just happens'' to own a big chunk of land which used to belong to the Federal Government (us taxpayers): Hunters Point Naval Shipyards.
Her protégé, Gavin Newsom, current Mayor of San Francisco, is trying to strike up a deal where the San Francisco 49ers will get that land and stay in the city, rather than moving to Santa Clara and building a new stadium down there.
But there seems to be some problem with the Naval shipyard being a Superfund cleanup site.
Stand by for developments as the blinkless wonder simultaneously cleans up corruption in Congress, and finds a way around this ''Inconvenient Truth.''
Bush's fault.
Next that pyscho Rat congressman will be blaming Rove, LGF and Free Republic for the doctored photos.
Translation: We got snagged because of screen resolution.
All pixel-manipulation should be performed on high tech gear to reduce the risk of being caught.
"If someone is dismissed but nobody knows who was dismissed, is anyone dismissed?"
Exactly, whenever any organization says that they have punished or dismissed a wrong doer and refuses to identify them, nothing happened. It is just more BS.
LOL... It's Reuters, so it's all too possible that they "fired" the unnamed editor to quell critics, then in recognition of the ex-editor's valiant effort to push forward Reuters "progressive" ideals, hired that same person as a Senior Vice President of Reuters.
/S
Getting caught = poor job performance.
"If someone is dismissed but nobody knows who was dismissed, is anyone dismissed?"
Depends"
What do adult diapers have to do with this?
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