Posted on 08/07/2006 9:23:25 AM PDT by Efraty
Reuters has withdrawn a second photograph and admitted that the image was doctored, following the emergence of new suspicions against images provided by the news organization. On Sunday, Reuters admitted that one of its photographers, Adnan Hajj, used software to distort an image of smoke billowing from buildings in Beirut in order to create the effect of more smoke and damage.
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As Rush said this morning a classic expample of the "drive by media" doing its work. Tossing handgrenades at the story and then driving off to do the next thing at the next story. All quiet except for Fox News from the rest of the MSM on another fake but accurate story.
I found another
An American Expat in Southeast
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If you visit this site, note that it uses the term "reutered" as a verb meaning a falsified photo.
I love that! From now on, when we discuss a news photo that has been altered with the intent to deceive, let's call it a "reutered photo."
Maybe we should also call a forged document a "rathered" document :O)
The talk is that this one is indeed a fake as well, but the smoke is not the big clue. (IMO it is indeed suspcicious that black oil-fire smoke is pouring out of a lower apartment room hours at all, never mind that it's still pouring out apparently hours after the place has been devastated.)
Perspective is the *cough* smoking gun in this photo. Here you can't see anything but the porch for anything that's just four stories up. You'd have to be pretty close to the building to get that kind of perspective. Is this guy twenty feet in front of the Leaning Tower of Lebanon? This one's a composite of two separate shots.
Hey, maybe PhotoShop will even add a filter called "reuter."
You click the button, and it gives you a quickie one-pass fake that wouldn't fool a ten-year-old.
:O)
LOL thanks! Done!
This photo was so crudely altered anyone with the slightest knowlege of Photoshop could see the fakery. Obviously Reuter's editors are engaging in propaganda rather than news reporting. I would half expect them to run a photo of Fidel riding in the Tour de France and expect the world to believe it to be truse.
No, it does not.
If my staged theory is correct it could explain the small amount of smoke coming from what is left of the front door. the smoke looks more like something is burning on the floor just inside the door than smoke coming from somewhere inside.
Yep.
(Too many people around here obviously don't have enough to do on Sunday night...)
The new "Reuters" photoshop filter will take any picture and tilt it to underscore a particular agenda. Maybe give it some submenu options, e.g., no wmd, haliburton, global warming, leftist marches, evil republicans, religion of peace, chimp, lesbian gay, and Vietnam service.
The evil republican filter will give any person in the picture piercing white demon eyes and a hint of a snarl. The leftist marches filter will triple the number of marchers, the haliburton filter adds environmental disasters to the background scenery, etc,.
The shadows seem off, but I need a better image to work with.
I've posted twice already Reuters photos of the same women in front of a bombed building which has been used two different times captioned with two different dates. Either this woman is the unluckiest home owner in Lebanon or at least one is bull.
See photos here:
http://drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com/2006/08/extreme-makeover-beirut-edition.html
probably a looter
Same woman fifteen days apart.
A Lebanese woman wails after looking at the wreckage of her apartment, in a building, that was demolished by the Israeli attacks in southern Beirut July 22, 2006. REUTERS/Issam Kobeisi (from Yahoo News)
A Lebanese woman reacts at the destruction after she came to inspect her house in the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006, after Israeli warplanes repeatedly bombed the area overnight.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (from Yahoo News)
Good idea! Fewer syllables than "photoshopped."
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