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Reuters Admits Photo Fakery!
Reuters ^ | 8-6-06 | Reuters

Posted on 08/06/2006 4:35:24 AM PDT by Crazieman

Edited on 08/06/2006 5:09:15 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: mewzilla

That and the fact that their employees are issuing death threats.


181 posted on 08/06/2006 6:10:49 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: ReignOfError

Reign, Reuters issued a kill order on the pic. What more do you need?


182 posted on 08/06/2006 6:11:00 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: backhoe
"Identifying falsified images can be straightforward if you know a few tricks."

Shouldn't Reuters subject ALL their photographs to simple statistical and technical tests prior to going out over the wires? Aren't they responsible for quality control, veracity, provenance and content? Or does forwarding an antisemite agenda trump all other considerations in the eyes of Herr Reuters' heirs?

This is Lucy Ramirez level sophistication. I certainly hope the source of this photograph is fired, at the least. What controls are in place to prevent this from happening again?

Like the political bias of CBS (huge, endemic, pervasive and deeply ingrained) does Reuters' bias insinuate itself into all its reporting, to point of rendering it a not so subtle propaganda machine for one side in this conflict? NOTE TO REUTERS CUSTOMERS: May I point out that was a rhetorical question, since you do not seem to be very quick on the uptake?

183 posted on 08/06/2006 6:12:09 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
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To: humblegunner; BlueSky194

I believe you're being summoned at post #179.


184 posted on 08/06/2006 6:12:21 AM PDT by Allegra (FReeping LIVE! from "the other war zone.")
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To: Chode


"believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear" is now "none of what you see, none of what you hear".

I am really shocked, shocked that I was so gullible to think that pic might be real.

Explodng pick up trucks on date line, Real but fake documents by Dan Rather, you think I would have learned!


185 posted on 08/06/2006 6:13:23 AM PDT by PA-RIVER (Islam, built on the pillars of Hatred)
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To: BlueSky194

Call Peter Jackson.


186 posted on 08/06/2006 6:14:01 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: FreeRadical
Here's the sad thing: how do we know the "correct" photo is not fake, but just more cleverly photoshopped?

Reuters has NO credibility.

187 posted on 08/06/2006 6:14:32 AM PDT by JCEccles (Reuters: reuting for the success of Islamofascism all day, everyday!)
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To: humblegunner

LOL!!


188 posted on 08/06/2006 6:18:08 AM PDT by PistolPaknMama (Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
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To: mware

I thought the series of dead children was strange. I don't know how to go back and see those pictures again. But one was of a person placing a dead child in a mass grave. All the other corpses were completely covered, I forget if they were in coffins or completely wrapped. But the guy had the baby in a regular blanket with it's face exposed. I was wondering why are they burying this child so differently in a loose blanket with the face uncovered.


189 posted on 08/06/2006 6:18:14 AM PDT by A knight without armor
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To: mware
"...The git sent the e mail from Reuters..."

Unbeliveable. Even the most rabid liberals infected with BDS know they cannot send death threats from their work email address...:)

It is things like this that give me encouragement that we will defeat these idiots when we come to total and open war, as I feel that we eventually will be forced to do.

190 posted on 08/06/2006 6:20:07 AM PDT by rlmorel (Islamofacism: It is all fun and games until someone puts an eye out. Or chops off a head.)
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To: mewzilla
FWIW, I regard that as infamy rather than fame.

Absolutely. She went where the money and fame were, and was a pariah after the war ended. Justifiably. You can't serve as a handmaiden to evil and then say you were just a handmaiden.

It's a pity she didn't flee the Reich, or even remain apolitical, instead of serving it so well and enthusiastically; she was an incredibly talented filmmaker and photographer.

Even Triumph of the Will is a beautifully shot and executed film, to the degree that you can separate its technical and aesthetic merit from its glorification of evil. That's not easy to do even a little bit, and I don't think it's possible to do completely.

Her work after the war also showed great talent and skill, but the world wasn't inclined to forgive or forget. Reasonably so. If she'd used her talents to document the Holocaust after the war ended, that would have been a suitable form of atonement.

191 posted on 08/06/2006 6:21:24 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: mware

bump


192 posted on 08/06/2006 6:21:51 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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To: mware
I read the thread investigating the photo before I went to church. Her I am home, and Reuters has admitted it!

Great job, all of you who participated!

193 posted on 08/06/2006 6:22:02 AM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: Crazieman

How many times do MSM news organizations need to get busted for "fake but accurate"? And if there is really no liberal bias, which they all say, why is it their fakery is ALWAYS lefty slanted?


194 posted on 08/06/2006 6:23:13 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Amnesia is a train of thought.)
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To: ReignOfError

You may very well be right. However, it doesn't change the fact that the overlay shown in my post was doctored. I guess without the original photo(s) we can't say for certain regarding anything else about the photos.


195 posted on 08/06/2006 6:23:36 AM PDT by tsmith130
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To: mewzilla
In this case, they're going for sympathy. Making Beirut look like it's been laid waste to is part of the plan.

But the doctored photo doesn't make Beirut look any more wasted than the original. That's my point. I understand propaganda. I know how it works, and how it can be abrupt or subtle. This case is neither. It's just stupid.

196 posted on 08/06/2006 6:23:39 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: abb
Raoul's First Law of Journalism
BIAS = LAYOFFS

197 posted on 08/06/2006 6:25:55 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (New York Times? Get a rope!)
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To: Guenevere
These clowns would get away with everything!

You can bet your sweet @$$ that they have been doing things like this forever and are just now getting caught. Repeatedly.

198 posted on 08/06/2006 6:26:21 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Amnesia is a train of thought.)
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To: ReignOfError
I disagree and I believe most people would disagree.

The fraudulent photo is darker, more sinister, and makes the devastation look more immediate and complete.

199 posted on 08/06/2006 6:26:35 AM PDT by JCEccles (Reuters: reuting for the success of Islamofascism all day, everyday!)
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To: JCEccles
how do we know the "correct" photo is not fake, but just more cleverly photoshopped?

Exactly! That's kinda the whole point, isn't it? This goes from a sort of euphoric gotcha to a real ugly reality: How many times have they got us?

And, while in general I feel pretty Reuter Proof -- They lost me way back in the day when they refused to use the word terrorist -- the lesson is clear: Every photo is fake until proven accurate.

200 posted on 08/06/2006 6:27:08 AM PDT by FreeRadical (Find Terrorists Here: islamicFinder.com)
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