AP Fires Photographer: Reuters Fires Photographer Over Doctored Photos

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[Covenantor]

"Fauxtography!"

excellent!

[NutCrackerBoy]

Sweet.

[InvisibleChurch]

You're fired!! ... but,um, please leave your file of pictures, please...

[Rte66]

Wow, my head is spinning. At 7:19, I posted the joke that the fauxtog was "making a statement" and there is a thread started at 7:22 with a quote from Reuters saying their fired fauxtog was "not making a statement."

Different news service, different fired fauxtog, but I just love when that happens. Ask a question on FR and the media who doesn't read here, ha ha, answers or rebuts with their own spin within a matter of minutes.

[DannyTN]

He'll just change his name to Mohammed Fakaphotofatjihadi and keep selling them to Reuters.

[humblegunner]

Sweet. Timestamped.

[OldFriend]

And they trash Drudge because he has no editors.........sheesh!

[Recovering_Democrat]

WHY AREN'T THEY FIRING THE HIGHER UPS?? WHY AREN'T THEY FIRING THE MANAGERS AND WHY AREN'T THE CHIEFS OF AP AND AL-REUTERS OUT OF A JOB?? THEY TOLERATED AND ENCOURAGED THIS ATMOSPHERE OF FRAUD AND LYING!

[mikeandike]

Fauxtography --- invented by Charles Johnson LGF

it says so in wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauxtography

[ArrogantBustard]

ROFL!!!!
Perfect term for this sort of dishonesty.
Add this word to the English language.

[FreedomCalls]

To be fair Charles Johnson posted a comment headlining the word "Fauxtography" on LGF at 1:38 PDT some three hours earlier. He should get the credit.

[TomServo]

Noted...thanks FC...

[Loyal Buckeye]

FOTO-ROOTER

Call Foto-Reuter, that's the name, and away go photos down the drain... Foto-Reuter

[Loyal Buckeye]

Pooh. Misspelled Reuters.

FOTO-REUTERS

Call Foto-Reuters, that's the name, and away go photos down the drain... Foto-Reuters

[finnman69]

that's where I saw it, LGF

[doc1019]

What is really killing these ‘fools’ is that they have yet to realize that they can’t get away with it anymore. When it finally hits them, hopefully, it will be too late. Viva! Modern technology …

[OldFriend]

Our media would rather present the lie and offer a pretend oops. The lie will be remembered and the apology will not.

[dr_lew]

Hah! It's more likely that they'll make this guy into a martyr - hounded to death by the bloggers for a little innocent photoshopping.

[William Tell]

Jessica24 said: "The whole thing would be really hilarious if they were actually held accountable in some way, but of course they won't be."

Actually, the broadcast TV news organizations and the liberal-dominated newspapers are feeling the effects. People are tuning out and cancelling subscriptions.

It takes discipline to give up the positive contributions from these sources but it is essential if they are to get the message. My wife very much misses the local news that we no longer get because we won't pay people to lie to us by subscribing to our local liberal rag.

I recommend this course to anyone who wishes to support real change in this area.

[Sam Hill]

Little Green Footballs:

08/08/06 01:38 PM: MSM Fauxtography Watch

Some more possible evidence of MSM fauxtography (hat tip: kay1212) at OpinionJournal. And here’s another at Hot Air: Another bogus photo? UPDATE at 8/8/06 2:08:50 pm: Wow. The Passion of the Toys. UPDATE at 8/8/06 6:32:11 pm: The photo linked by OpinionJournal above apparently shows a body with rigor mortis: ...

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