[FreeRadical]

IMHO, I think the story is quickly becoming that yahoo still has the foto up. They've no doubt had a volley of truth thrown at them.... and, yet, here it is 7a.m. EST and they still are defiantly showing the reuters lie.

Reuters is no friend, we've known that for a while. And, 2, we've known for a while that yahoo's got china's buck to suck, so we know they aren't exactly pure as can be.... but somewhere, sonehow, overnite you'd a thunk somebody at yahoo would have pulled the plug on further displaying the foto.

Yahoo continues to spread lies as of 7:10a.m. EST

[YaYa123]

Way to go!

[enufisenuf]

It's absolutely appalling that the people in charge don't look out for this.
Do they care is the real question. What's getting by as "news" is really upsetting.
You would think that it would be part of the job to find out if pictures are authentic, especially in this day and age when it's so easy to doctor anything by using photo-shop.
Let the reader beware!
It seems it would be feasible to take any picture and alter it to portray whatever you want and submit it to a news agency and some one, some where, would print it.
Scary!

[bc4gwb]

PICTURE KILL FOR LBN20 TRANSMITTED AT APPROXIMATELY 1408GMT ON AUGUST 5, 2006. PHOTO EDITING SOFTWARE WAS IMPROPERLY USED ON THIS IMAGE. A CORRECTED VERSION WILL IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW THIS ADVISORY. PLEASE REMOVE THE IMAGE FROM YOUR SYSTEMS. WE ARE SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE. REUTERS LBN20

ATTENTION EDITORS: THIS IS A CORRECTED FILE OF LBN20. REUTERS HAS ISSUED A KILL OF THE PREVIOUS VERSION. Smoke billows from burning buildings destroyed during an overnight Israeli air raid on Beirut's suburbs August 5, 2006. Picture taken August 5, 2006. REUTERS/Adnan Hajj (LEBANON)

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I would think action would lie. The Israelis should sue Reuters in US court for defamation. The Israelis know whether they dropped bombs in a way which could not have caused that smoke pattern, and they will have after-action recce photos which will prove or refute the suggestion that multiple bombs were dropped at the indicated location.

I would also think that the CIA would know if whether or not this photo is fraudulent, and it is the business of the govenment to substantiate its own policy which is to support Israel diplomatically. So the US government should sue Reuters in that case. Either way, the damages sought should not be limited to money but to the cancellation of the propaganda effect of the fraudulent image.

And if the MSM stonewalls, hit them with RICO. Crippling damages for collusion.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Maybe Reuters just wanted to make things look 'disproportionate'!! :P

[grey_whiskers]

Anti-Reuters Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED. FIRE!!

I see the smoke, but where are the mirrors?

[turbocat]

I found a little more on the photoshop stuff re Reuters. Another picture taken at almost exactly the same time. Which brings into question why the shot was used at all. See my comparison here at my STICKY NOTES blog

[Arrowhead1952]

Take a look at this ping!

[XenaLee]

Ok....pardon my ignorance re: these matters....

but to what purpose would Reuters 'add' plumes of smoke to these pictures? To what gain or purpose??? What could their motive/agenda have possibly been?

Much like the conspiracy theory wackos that claim that Bush had the twin towers blown up (or down) with explosives.....

I just don't 'get' the reasoningm, motivation, or gain in doing so.

Please explain and enlighten me.

[Cedar]

Great work by LGF and all you FReepers. There's a wealth of knowledge on FR!

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP!

[Bogtrotter52]

I did not see the story on the news until late this afternoon. The doctoring was REALLY lame and laughable. The conclusion I came to after Reuters admitted it was that they let it go by and did not give a damn because they KNEW that the hundreds of papers in the muslim world would buy it and the masses of barely educated citizens would accept them as real. The damage is already done.