Breaking on Fox: Reuters admits 2nd photo doctored

FoxNews | 08/07/06 | FoxNews

[PajamaTruthMafia]

Fox News just reported that Reuters admits second photo was doctored.

Here's the image:

[Sloth]

[teddyballgame]

"The trails from all three flares are exactly the same."

Hey, he was probably trying to get the dust out of the image.

[TET1968]

Where did you get that one? I think yoor right.

It would be funny if some freeper was photo shopping green helmet guy's face on anything walking.

[Bones75]

USS Enterprise Attacks Israeli F-16's Over Lebanon!.. You heard it here first, folks!!!

LMAO!!!

[rmgatto]

They are not merely entrails, they are hugh and series entrails.

[antiRepublicrat]

contrail?

Nope, those are basically artificial clouds created by airplanes at high altitude. I guess we can just call them smoke or exhaust trails.

[Roccus]

ICBW but I thought I read a few yrs. ago that the Moonies bought it.

[antiRepublicrat]

It happened but could be a posed for retake.

It was the second flag raising, but it was only raised again because some big-wig took the first one. They just had a photographer there for the second raising.

[GOPJ]

It's bad - but remember the days when Reuters could have gotten away with it? Those days are o-var.

[Diamond]

How about a staged photograph of a burning Koran by the same photoshopgrapher?

"Well! I guess a foreign Muslim photographer just got lucky again to find the inciting, dramatic picture of a burning Koran after an Israeli air strike, huh? It's the perfect visual metaphor for the Islamist cause -- the Jews destroying the Koran itself -- and I just suppose he happened to luck upon a bomb site where one was conveniently still aflame. I would imagine a book would either stop burning, or be completely burned (and hence not burning) 99% of the time you visited a scene two hours after an attack, but this phographer just got lucky once again, right?

That photographer's name, by the way? Adnan Hajj of Reuters."

Ace of Spades HQ

Cordially,

[Freedom Dignity n Honor]

ROFL! I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.

[GOPJ]

Please add me to your Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™ List

[Freedom Dignity n Honor]

ROFL!

[Post-Neolithic]

Look at the center smoke item in the area I have highlighted in green. Notice that it's flat at the top? To my knowledge smoke doesn't billow out with a flat top, especially since the ones next to it are rounded at the top. You might have to enlarge the picture to see what I am taling about.

I enlarged the original picture to take a quick look at it.

[Roccus]

Wasn't Hajj the "journalism student" in the Haditha case, or am I just getting confused with these ME names?

[eeevil conservative]

hmmm

Good question.. I don't know....

[Roccus]

Another Freeper on a different thread has corrected me. The Moonies have UPI not Reuters.

[ChadGore]

This guy makes Jason Blair and Dan Rather look honest!

[RoseofTexas]

It's legit! It was posted on another FR thread. Don't know if my eyes are playing tricks on me, but the guy sure looks identical to the green H. dude!

[Sisku Hanne]

When I zoom in I can't see patterning in the pixels that indicate cloning. However a brush could have been used to darken the smoke in that area, resulting in a "clipped" appearance of the smoke.

What it looks like to me is that the smoke has been considerably darkened using Photoshop's burn tool. Note the intense blue of the sky in the right, yet on the left, above the building, it's nearly white. The original probably looked more like this before it was "enhanced":