Posted on 08/06/2006 2:51:43 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
LONDON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Reuters, the global news and information agency, told a freelance Lebanese photographer on Sunday it would not use any more of his pictures after he doctored an image of the aftermath of an Israeli air strike on Beirut.
The photograph by Adnan Hajj, which was published on news Web sites on Saturday, showed thick black smoke rising above buildings in the Lebanese capital after an Israeli air raid in the war with the Shi'ite Islamic group Hizbollah, now in its fourth week.
Reuters withdrew the doctored image on Sunday and replaced it with the unaltered photograph after several news blogs said it had been manipulated using Photoshop software to show more smoke.
Reuters has strict standards of accuracy that bar the manipulation of images in ways that mislead the viewer.
"The photographer has denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying that he was trying to remove dust marks and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under," said Moira Whittle, the head of public relations for Reuters.
"This represents a serious breach of Reuters' standards and we shall not be accepting or using pictures taken by him," Whittle said in a statement issued in London.
Hajj worked for Reuters as a non-staff freelance, or contributing photographer, from 1993 until 2003 and again since April 2005.
He was among several photographers from the main international news agencies whose images of a dead child being held up by a rescuer in the village of Qana, south Lebanon, after an Israeli air strike on July 30 have been challenged by blogs critical of the mainstream media's coverage of the Middle East conflict.
Reuters and other news organisations reviewed those images and have all rejected allegations that the photographs were staged.
How deep is the rabbit hole?
The return of Green Helmet
http://www.eureferendum.blogspot.com/
The unluckiest woman in the World?
http://drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com/2006/08/extreme-makeover-beirut-edition.html
Another Hajj Photo That Should Be Retracted (Seriously)
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/189537.php
You've nailed it; they didn't can him for doctoring an image, the canned him for being lousy at it.
He broke the Reuter's code: Don't get caught.
Why hasn't somebody posted the altered and unaltered photos ..??
The hubris of Reuters for assuming we are too stupid to notice their BIASED reporting.
Bad lighting conditions, huh? Just where the heck was this pic shot from, anyone know? Is there some vantage point that overlooks the city of Beirut?
They ACTUALLY have standards? I didn't know terrorists, their sympathizers or democrats had standards?
Someone needs to go capture quickly.
I saw a link to all his submissions earlier. Others of them had been tampered with.
I'm a dweeb and can't do it.
Dear Earth,
We're sorry we got caught.
Sincerely,
Reuters
Joseph Goebbels'.
He did a good job - he covered them up with all that extra smoke. ;)
It took news bloggers to bring it to their attention? They couldn't police it themselves?
TAQIYYA!! --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqiyya
Adnaj Hajj is a taqiyya master. Taqiyya means telling lies to the non-Muslim
Adnaj Hajj will be replaced by another rotten propagandist. Or he'll get re-hired under another name. BECAUSE this guy has the right terrorist connections to get the right propaganda photos
That last set needs barf alerts...
Fake, Fake, Fake
I have answered my own question - here is a comparison of both photos which is excellent:
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/08/06/reuters-and-the-cloned-blown-smoke/
Kinda like ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC's et al....
And what "dust marks" was stupid trying to get rid of? Dust marks off of digital pics or perhaps dust marks that were getting in the way of all the smoke he wanted seen in the pics?
10-4, roger that.
More work to be done?
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