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Photos Posted Below the Fold The Jerusalem Post caught another fauxtography scam out of the mideast this week. It appears that Hamas legislators have staged fake power outages to illustrate how oppressed they are for the benefit of journalists. The Journalists were treated to a photo op of the Hamas legislators sitting in their halls of power surrounded by burning candles in rooms with curtains drawn. The scene was set to show how they have had their power cut by the eeeevil Jews. Only problem is, midday sunlight can clearly be seen against the curtains. So, the candles were unnecessary....

The President returned to the White House from his new year break at his ranch in Crawford, Texas on New Year's Day although stated as a vacation one has only to look at the White House website for the period he was at the ranch to see that it was somewhat of a busman's holiday (are Americans familar with that term?). Today the President gave an interview to Reuter reporters in Oval Office. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley briefed reporters in the briefing room of the White House today on the president's trip next week to the Middle East. Secretary...

NEW YORK Can Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein possibly get a fair trial in Iraq? Scott Horton of Harper's magazine is the latest to look at the purported evidence, and fairness of his trial -- he is accused of aiding insurgents and was held without charges for well over a year -- in an article now at www.harper's.org. "Iraq’s equivalent of the Zenger case is being conducted now before an Iraqi investigating judge," Horton writes. "In the dock sits the Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photojournalist Bilal Hussein. The prosecution is brought by the American Pentagon, under a Secretary of Defense...

A crocodile at a zoo in the southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung holds the forearm of a zoo veterinarian in between its teeth...

Reuters Revives the Bogus Mr. Baghdadi as AQI Spokesman By Mark Finkelstein | December 4, 2007 - 12:07 ET Can I get an "argh"? As detailed here, "Abu Omar al-Baghdadi" was long-ago outed as a figment of al Qaeda-in-Iraq's imagination, a transparent attempt to give a home-grown flavor to the foreign-controlled AQI operation by claiming that the non-existent Baghdadi, supposedly an Iraqi, was AQI's leader. But despite the debunking of the bogus Mr. Baghdadi, the environmentally-sensitive Reuters recycles him today in its story "Al Qaeda-linked leader orders Iraq bombings".

Has the Al Dura trial had its Rosemary Woods missing tapes moment? It certainly sounds that way. PJM’s Nidra Poller has the latest on the ongoing trial in Paris over what has been called “The Mother of All Fauxtography.” The Mohammed Al-Dura drama reached a climax as France 2’s auteur, who had up till now not appeared in court, took the stand. Charles Enderlin came to court personally today to defend the images shot by his trusted cameraman Talal Abu Rahma at Netzarim Junction in the Gaza Strip on September 30, 2000. The cameraman had declared under oath that he...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI agents investigating the September 16 episode in which Blackwater security guards shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians have found that at least 14 of the shootings were unjustified, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT The FBI investigation into the shootings in Baghdad is still under way, but the findings, which indicate that the company's employees violated deadly force rules in effect for security contractors in Iraq, are already under review by the Justice Department, the newspaper said. It cited unnamed civilian and military officials briefed on the case. Prosecutors have yet to decide whether...

A good piece on the media’s complicity with terrorist propaganda, by Richard Landes: Al-Dura and the ‘Public Secret’ of Middle East Journalism. In the summer of 2006, Reuters News Agency, humiliated when bloggers caught them duped by obvious photographic manipulation, fired both the photographer and the chief of their photographic bureau. They then removed all the photographer’s photos from their news archive. In so doing, they acted decisively in punishing two of the cardinal sins of modern journalism: “creating evidence” and getting duped by created evidence.These principles – i.e., the ethics of a free press – go so deep, that...

The Lone Reuter From Reuters: By Noor Mohammad Sherzai BATI KOT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least one U.S. soldier opened fire to scatter a crowd of civilians and police on Thursday after failed suicide bomb attacks on a U.S. military convoy, the U.S. military and witnesses said. . . . "I saw the fire brigade vehicle rushing to the area at top speed. Somehow its brakes failed and hit one police vehicle and coalition vehicles, then the Americans started firing," said Reuters correspondent Noor Mohammad Sherzai. That's right, Noor Mohammad Sherzai is quoting himself! (Or herself, as Noor apparently is...

BATI KOT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least one U.S. soldier opened fire to scatter a crowd of civilians and police on Thursday after failed suicide bomb attacks on a U.S. military convoy, the U.S. military and witnesses said. A car bomb targeting a U.S. convoy in the village of Bati Kot, 15 km (9 miles) east of Jalalabad, killed the driver, two passengers and a nearby civilian, but none of the soldiers was hurt, the U.S. military said in a statement. Afghan police securing the site in eastern Afghanistan were then attacked by an insurgent dressed in police uniform. He...

Journalists like to tell us about their professionalism and the many layers of editors that ensure their accuracy. However, somewhere in those layers of editors, have reporters lost the ability to perform basic research? In the case of Reuters reporter Jeff Mason, it would seem to be so. Mason wrote an article on California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Monday speech on global warming, in which he wrote, President George W. Bush pulled the United States out of the Kyoto accord, saying it unfairly burdened rich countries while exempting developing countries like China and India. This is a startling revision of history....

It has become apparent that some journalists covering President Bush either have a learning disability or work extra hard to twist his words until the reporters turn into novelists. The latest to prove this theory correct works for Reuters, which sent out a story that claimed George Bush thought that Nelson Mandela had died, when in fact Bush used an analogy that clearly sailed over Reuters' head. It also showed that some progressive bloggers don't do much research when jumping all over a news quote: (via Memeorandum, Instapundit, and Best of the Web) Nelson Mandela is still very much alive...

Reuters Misleads About Bush Saying 'Mandela's Dead' By Warner Todd Huston | September 21, 2007 - 15:26 ET This one takes the cake as today, Reuters is trying to manufacture a controversy. Apparently alReuters doesn't understand the concept of "context" because they're idiotically claiming that in his Thursday press conference Bush said that Nelson Mandela is dead. Calling what Bush said "an embarrassing gaffe," Reuters took Bush's words out of context to make it seem as if Bush was talking about something he was not talking about. But any intelligent person can easily understand Bush's context merely by listening to...

Here is a story to brighten your weekend: Early this afternoon we received an email from one of our most loyal readers. We'll withhold his name, because our purpose here isn't to make him look silly. Suffice it to say that he writes us several times a week, his nickname for President Bush is "Chimpy," and the following message, which we quote verbatim, is actually quite a bit more temperate than his usual fare: No wonder the entire world sees this fool for the complete moron that he is. I now see that his supporters, such as your august self,...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The CNN cable television news network said on Thursday it would stop using the Reuters news service, ending a 27-year relationship, to contain costs and invest in its own news gathering operations. The global television news network owned by the world's largest media company, Time Warner Inc (TWX.N: Quote, Profile , Research), said in an internal memo that it wanted to reduce reliance on agency material while achieving better control of its growth. "This is all about us, not Reuters. This is about content ownership," CNN spokesman Nigel Pritchard said. "Everything is changing and content ownership...

One can get an idea of just how far severe Bush Derangement Syndrome has spread in the MSM by reading this blog posted by Charles Feldman, a CNN correspondent from 1983 to 2004. Now freed from the constraints of pretending to be unbiased in public, Feldman lets his BDS hang out for all to see in The Feldman Blog edition of August 17, Hurricane Dean: God’s Wrath For President Bush? Hurricane Dean, soon to be up graded to a full blown Category 5 hurricane, is taking aim at Texas…the state that gave us George W. Bush. In fact,this could be a...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The guilty verdict against Jose Padilla showed the Bush administration could win a high-profile terrorism conviction despite questions over whether it acted legally in detaining the U.S. citizen for 3-1/2 years without charges. But critics and law experts called Thursday's verdict a messy win for the government, in which it was able to avoid answering for its long detention and interrogation of Padilla without the legal rights normally granted U.S. citizens, and, his lawyers said, for torturing him. Some said it showed that the administration still lacks a workable system for trying terrorism suspects nearly six years...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc... the world's largest retailer, reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit and cut its full-year earnings forecast on Tuesday, saying its customers remain under economic pressure. Chief Executive Lee Scott blamed the disappointing performance on economic pressure around the world. "It is no secret that many customers are running out of money toward the end of the month," Scott said on a recorded conference call, adding that higher fuel prices, interest rates, utility costs and "more financial pressure" are hurting sales in its international market, including Mexico and Canada. With more than 127 million customers visiting a Wal-Mart store...

On Sunday, Reuters reported that the scene of a large massacre had been discovered near Baquba: BAGHDAD, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Iraqi police said on Sunday they had found 60 decomposed bodies dumped in thick grass in Baquba, north of Baghdad. There was no indication of how the 60 people had been killed, police said. Baquba is the capital of volatile Diyala province, where thousands of extra U.S. and Iraqi soldiers have been sent to stem growing violence. Why did the police have such a hard time providing an indication of how the 60 people had been killed? Probably because...

How many times do we have to see the MSM reporting on a "massacre of Iraqi civilians" that turns out to be a false story planted by our enemies before we can definitively say that the MSM is purposefully aiding and abetting the terrorists? How ever many that may be, the tally is certainly on its way to overflowing and here we have another galling example of the same thing. This time Rueters is caught taking directions from the terrorists and insurgents in Iraq with the tale of "60 decomposed bodies" supposedly found in Baquba by the never identified, amorphous...

News agency Reuters has been forced to admit that footage it released last week purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of the North Pole actually came from the movie Titanic. The images were reproduced around the world - including by the Guardian and Guardian Unlimited - alongside the story of Russia planting its flag below the North Pole on Thursday last week. Titanic error: Reuters issued this film still with a story about the Russian flag being planted beneath the North Pole. Photograph: Reuters

News agency Reuters used an image originating from the Hollywood blockbuster film Titanic as a photo of the Russian polar dive last week, Finnish tabloid Ilta-Sanomat reported Thursday Hannu Vanhanen, a photograph specialist at the University of Tampere, was quoted as saying that there was no doubt the image sent to Reuters subscribers was from the film. Reuters says the image was captured from a Russian television broadcast. Russian polar explorers took Finnish-made Mir-1 and Mir-2 deep-sea submersibles to a depth of 4,261 below the North Pole Thursday last week. Mirs were actually used to shoot footage of the RMS...

I am bringing this item from a Blog written by an anti-Hizbollah Shiite in Beirut. I have been viewing him since last summer and have found his blog to be a great source of news and opinion that the "mainstream" doesn't want to us to hear... here is today's post: Reuters: no arms smuggling If you read Reuters' coverage of Nasralllah's latest interview, you will come across the following "background information" in nearly every story filed by their editors: Lebanese security and political sources said in May that Hezbollah had replenished its rocket arsenal and received improved anti-aircraft and...

LONDON (Reuters) - An Iraqi photographer and driver working for Reuters in Iraq were killed in Baghdad on Thursday in what witnesses said was a U.S. helicopter attack but which the military described as a firefight with insurgents. Iraqi police blamed American military action for the deaths. Photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, were killed in eastern Baghdad, the international news and information company said. The U.S. military said the pair died after a clash between its troops and insurgents. The incident was under investigation, it said in a statement. U.S. and Iraqi forces engaged "a hostile...

In a story from Sydney covering the Live Earth Gorebasm Concerts, the following picture was included:Caption: Cool start ... scientists from the British research station in Antarctica were the first to kick off the Live Earth concerts with their indie band, Nunatak. Photo: ReutersThere is something odd about this picture, namely that it is the dead of Winter in Antarctica right now. The conditions there right now are perpetual darkness and unbearably cold temperatures. Yet in this photo, it is daylight, and one of the musicians isn't even wearing a hat. Exposed skin is highly susceptible to frostbite at temperatures...

In a report on a recent release of decades old documents detailing CIA operations in the 1960's and 70's, Reuters seems to find it necessary to interject "criticism" of president Bush "being too secretive now" even though not one part of the story has anything to do with president Bush or any modern CIA operations. It would be like talking about the Civil War and interjecting a Bush comment, or talking of Roman times and suddenly sticking in a "US imperialism" comment into the mix where it doesn't legitimately belong. The MSM's Bush Derangement Syndrome is so pervasive that they...

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq, June 6 (Reuters) - Government officials in the northern Iraqi autonomous region of Kurdistan on Wednesday denied media reports that Turkish troops had crossed the border into Iraq to hunt for Turkish rebels. Fouad Hussein, the head of the office of Kurdistan President Masoud Barzani, said the government had no knowledge of any invasion. "Up to this moment, there is no incursion by Turkish troops into the Iraq Kurdistan region. But I don't know if the troops have entered into distant parts of the mountains, situated between Iraq and Turkey," he told Reuters. A deputy minister responsible for...

Thousands of Iraqis stream to anti-US protest 09 Apr 2007 02:08:38 GMT Source: Reuters By Khaled Farhan NAJAF, Iraq, April 9 (Reuters) - Fiery Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's call for a big anti-U.S. protest on Monday was answered by thousands of Iraqis who flocked to the southern holy city of Najaf. Sadr, who blames the U.S.-led invasion for Iraq's unrelenting violence, issued a statement on Sunday urging Iraqis to protest on the fourth anniversary of the day U.S. forces swept into central Baghdad. "In order to end the occupation, you will go out and demonstrate," said Sadr, who had been...

Reuters Counts 9/11 Hijackers as 9/11 Victims Posted by Ken Shepherd on March 8, 2007 - 18:15. From the March 8 edition of James Taranto's Best of the Web. (H/t: Nathan Burchfiel): Another Man's Victim?Reuters has a cute little human interest story about funny people from Vermont holding "town meetings" where they call for President Bush's impeachment. What caught our eye was not the darling little Vermonters, though, but something in this paragraph: Doug Dunbebin, who walked door-to-door collecting signatures to get the question onto the town meeting ballot, said there are still unanswered questions about September 11, 2001, when...

BAGHDAD, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The new U.S. military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, warned on Saturday that failure to stabilise the country would condemn Iraq to continued civil strife. "The prospects for success are good," he said, referring to a new crackdown to curb sectarian violence in Baghdad. "Failing that, Iraq will be doomed to continuing violence and civil strife and surely that is a prospect all must strive to avoid." "The stakes are very high," he said, after taking over command of America's 130,000 troops in the country from General George Casey.

I am tired of Democrats saying they are patriotic and then insulting my commander in chief... I am tired of Democrats who tell me they support me, the soldier on the ground, and then tell me the best plan to win this war is with a “phased redeployment” (liberal-speak for retreat) out of the combat zone to someplace like Okinawa. I am tired of senior officers and commanders who fight this war with more of an eye on the media than on the enemy, who desperately needs killing. I am tired of the decisions of Sergeants and Privates made in...

this New York Times photograph of a crowd of Lebanese refugees: This is probably nothing. If it’s photo manipulation, it’s certainly an incredibly mundane example, and I can’t think of a reason why anyone would do it. I’m tossing this to the lizardoid community for comment from the other photoshop geeks out there, without rendering any judgment yet. In other words, I am not saying this is a definite fake; I know we’ve got quite a few experts at digital manipulation among our readers, and I’m sincerely asking for their opinions. But look at the image of the man in...

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...

Nobody ever thought this would happen. Americans actually siding with terrorists to get the story? Can America be that separated in opinion where a portion is actually hoping that the enemy actually ‘wins’ a war, that the killing of American troops proves a point, and that America should never be involved in a particular conflict? You bet. And it’s unfolding before us on our TV screens. “Wait. Wait. He fell down. God is great!” This is from one of the terrorist snipers narrated by the voice of Michael Ware(CNN correspondent). This is footage shown on TV was taken by an...

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 Emailing the Terrorists Posted by Robin Boyd on January 4, 2007 - 21:45. We already know that two of the Reuters' reporters covering Haditha were once imprisoned by Coalition forces for their terrorist ties. Now we hear that Reuters is communicating with Mullah Omar (or one of his reps) via email..."PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar has added to the mystery over Osama bin Laden, saying he hasn't seen his ally and fellow fugitive since U.S.-backed forces ousted the Taliban from Afghanistan in late 2001."No, I have neither seen him, nor have I made any effort...

Reuters' 2007 exclusive desk calendar loses some of its gloss. 2006 was a bad year for Reuters. The "Fauxtography" scandal called into question the media agency's entire modus operandi and the apparent lack of supervision that allowed Adnan Hajj's doctored photos to get past the photo editors. As 2007 begins, Reuters' newly appointed editor-in-chief David Schlesinger will barely have time to settle into his new office before being confronted with the organization's latest gaffe: Click on image to view the entire calendar Caption reads: A Palestinian militant marches during funerals for Palestinians killed by Israeli troops, in the Maghazi Refugee...

Reuters article describing Japanese TV saying that the women they had on the stage were wearing body suits.

A documentary says French special forces had Osama bin Laden in their sights twice about three years ago but their U.S. superiors never ordered them to fire. The French military, however, said that the incidents never happened and the report was "erroneous information." The documentary, due to air next year and seen by Reuters on Tuesday, says the troops could have killed the al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan but the order to shoot never came, possibly because it took too long to request it. "In 2003 and 2004 we had bin Laden in our sights. The sniper said 'I have...

Couldn't find any in this post by Paul Holmes Reuters Global Editor for Political and General News

The Associated Press used to be a highly respected wire service, and most American newspapers still subscribe to its services. Its extreme left-wing agenda, however, has so polluted its objectiveness that its news reports have become laughable; that is, they would be laughable if the daily damage the AP does to the truth was not so extreme. Many Americans were not even aware of the extent of the problem until this past summer when the AP began a flood of bogus reports portraying the Israelis as monsters and the Hezbollah as misunderstood heroes.

French police the target in urban guerrilla war By Jon Boyle Mon Nov 27, 11:29 AM ET PARIS (Reuters) - Stoned, beaten and insulted, their vehicles torched by crowds of hostile youths, French police say they face an urban guerrilla war when they enter the run-down neighborhoods that ring the major cities. "Our role is to guarantee the safety of people and property but the great difficulty today is that police are having problems ensuring their own safety," said Jerome Hanarte of the Alliance-Police Nationale union. Bedside television interviews with officers hospitalized after beatings in "les banlieues," or suburbs, support...

Police confiscate over 150 digital cameras, laptops and plasma screens from store owned by Ahmed Shanti, a Reuters' cameraman in Qalqilya. Electronics stolen from houses near Tel Aviv Raanan Ben-Zur Published: 11.17.06, 12:08 Several days ago special police and IDF forces raided Ahmed Shanti's store in Qalqiliya, confiscating over 150 electronic devices which Shanti admitted were stolen goods. Shanti, 34, works as a photographer for the Reuters news agency in Qalqilya. Over the past few months police have noted a rise in break-ins throughout the Sharon area near Tel Aviv, burglars were escaping with numerous electronic goods. Police intelligence led...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush gently admonished his father for saying he hates to think what life would be like for his son if the Democrats win control of Congress in the November 7 election. It was the latest sign of possible strain in the relationship between the two men. "He shouldn't be speculating like this, because -- he should have called me ahead of time and I'd tell him they're not going to (win)," a smiling Bush told ABC "This Week" in an interview broadcast on Sunday.

Arabist Media, the Arab Muslim or/and it's Opinions Control on Worldwide MediaIf you thought Arabism & Islamism effects only in certain countries? Think again, it's dirty hands are all over the place, it's the BBC, (http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com), it's Reuters, it's the CNN, it's the NPR (http://nprsucks.com), it's the WashingtonPost (http://EyeOnThePost.org) and so on. Take for example the latest, a simple war on terror, a sinmple fighting back of Israeli defenders provoked by Hezbullah terrorists (Huzbullah invaded into Israel from S. Lebanon, 2006) that used their Arab brothers civilians as shields, whewre were the photos of Israeli kids in the hospitals from...

On Tuesday, a Reuters cameraman was remanded to prison until trial for his part in rock-throwing attacks on security forces in Bil'in, where the separation fence is a constant target of protesters. The cameraman, Imad Muhammad Intisar Boghnat, was arrested and charged as a result of violent riots in the Arab village of Bil'in, in the Modi'in region, on October 6, 2006. A videotape that the prosecution presented to the judge shows Boghnat encouraging and directing rioters in Bil'in to throw large chunks of rock at Israeli vehicles in such a way as to cause maximum damage. The accused is...

On Tuesday, Joe Maguire, one of two editors in charge of markets coverage at Reuters, handed his bosses the galleys of his new book, “Brainless: The Lies and Lunacy of Ann Coulter.” On Wednesday, Mr. Maguire discovered he would have plenty of free time to promote his book, which comes out this week. Neither side in this dispute would say that he was fired. “There was a difference of opinion about the approval I received to write this book,” Mr. Maguire said. “I thought I had met the conditions, and proceeded accordingly. As a result, I no longer work there.”...

Israel: Foreign reporters' vehicles may be used terrorists Government Press Office director warns Shin Bet that armored vehicles used by foreign news agencies may serve hostile groups to carry out attacks against Israel Itamar Eichner Armored vehicles that were given to foreign news agencies operating in the country with the authorization of the State of Israel, may be used by hostile groups to carry out terror attacks against Israel, Director of the Government Press Office Danny Seaman warned in a letter addressed to Shin Bet Head Yuval Diskin. On August 27 an Israel Defense Forces helicopter hit an armored vehicle...

Hanoi (dpa) - Vietnam's most famous war-time spy Pham Xuan An, who worked as a trusted reporter for Western news agencies in Saigon by day and sent secret reports to Hanoi by night, has died at age 79, his family said Thursday. During the war, An was known as a "dean of the Vietnamese press corps," a crack reporter who brought fantastic contacts and keen political analysis to his work for news organizations including Reuters, the Christian Science Monitor and finally TIME magazine.