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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]

PICTURE KILL FOR LBN20 TRANSMITTED AT APPROXIMATELY 1408GMT ON AUGUST 5, 2006. PHOTO EDITING SOFTWARE WAS IMPROPERLY USED ON THIS IMAGE. A CORRECTED VERSION WILL IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW THIS ADVISORY. PLEASE REMOVE THE IMAGE FROM YOUR SYSTEMS. WE ARE SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE. REUTERS LBN20 Smoke billows from burning buildings destroyed during an overnight Israeli air raid on Beirut's suburbs August 5, 2006. Many buildings were flattened during the attack. REUTERS/Adnan Hajj (LEBANON) REUTERS NEWS PICTURES

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To: ReignOfError
"As I replied to another poster, you can't use the same image to illustrated ham-handed propaganda and subtle manipulation"

Yes, you can: according to the media, the media DOES NOT, NEVER, EVER manipulate the news in any way, because repeat after me 10,000,000 times "the media is unbiased". Get it? "Unbiased". "The media is unbiased".

That means that ANY manipulation of events, be it in text, video or still photography, blatantly breaks the ethical standards the mass media is so inordinately proud of bragging about.

421 posted on 08/06/2006 12:23:34 PM PDT by cake_crumb (One presidential visit to Baghdad is worth 1000 pathetic declarations of defeat from the left)
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To: Crazieman
Tornado
422 posted on 08/06/2006 12:25:22 PM PDT by Mark-in-Kentucky
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To: GoLightly
I am totally puzzled by this tempest in a teapot.
I will grant you, the alteration of some photos can have profound repercussions, but C'on...

Making the smoke thicker in this photograph is earthshaking?

I can't see the importance of it all.

423 posted on 08/06/2006 12:27:08 PM PDT by Publius6961 (overwhelming force behaving underwhelmingly is a waste.)
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To: Crazieman

Does anybody realize that this makes al-reuters more accountable than dan rather?


424 posted on 08/06/2006 12:28:32 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: justiceseeker93

"Al Reuters ping!"

LOL! It's tough being show-prep for Rush, but someone has to do it! ;)


425 posted on 08/06/2006 12:29:12 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: backhoe

Good post backhoe.

Thank God for the educated wise eyes of the Pajama People all around the Net for their dedication to ferret out the truth from the lies fed to us by the Evil MSM.

I truly hate the MSM, like the Devil, they mix a little truth with a lot of lies to confuse us.


426 posted on 08/06/2006 12:29:18 PM PDT by SeaBiscuit (God Bless America and All who protect and preserve this Great Nation.)
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To: ReignOfError
Beats me why a photographer or editor would risk his job over that, or how anyone that inept could have gotten the gig in the first place.

I would suggest that that al Reuters, whose collective mind set was biased in favor of the Islamofascist terrorists, figured that hiring Arab photographers was good for the cause in general. An Affirmative Action hiring policy for Arabs, you might say.

427 posted on 08/06/2006 12:31:27 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: SeaBiscuit

It is perhaps worth noting that Satan's first recorded words were "Hath not the Lord said..."


428 posted on 08/06/2006 12:32:52 PM PDT by null and void (Bipartisanship: when the Stupid Party & the Evil Party agree on something that is both stupid & evil)
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To: null and void

Looks like Fox is going to cover the reuters story. They just did a tease mentioning, "We got the picture to prove it."


429 posted on 08/06/2006 12:34:40 PM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs doing the job of the media.)
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To: mware

Only 7 hours behind FR. Not bad. Not bad at all...


430 posted on 08/06/2006 12:36:38 PM PDT by null and void (Bipartisanship: when the Stupid Party & the Evil Party agree on something that is both stupid & evil)
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To: justiceseeker93

Why would Hajj alter the photo? For what purpose?


431 posted on 08/06/2006 12:42:10 PM PDT by Raebie
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To: Crazieman

If that kill hour is correct, Reuters is saying they killed the photo at 4am PST on Saturday, well before bloggers began raising questions about it. Did they get the wrong date on the kill time, or have we spent an inordinate amount of energy chasing something they caught on their own somewhere before dawn on Saturday?


432 posted on 08/06/2006 12:43:21 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg
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To: Raebie

'cuz he's a Joooooooooo?

Come on! Waddaya think????


433 posted on 08/06/2006 12:43:22 PM PDT by null and void (Bipartisanship: when the Stupid Party & the Evil Party agree on something that is both stupid & evil)
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To: null and void

Can someone do a closeup of the gloved hand in photo #2?


434 posted on 08/06/2006 12:47:08 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Publius6961
If this was a photo put out as "art", that would be one thing. Fudging a pic to increase dramatic affect in a *news* piece (more severe damage implied) is propaganda, not news. How many areas were hit by Israeli bombs in the edited pic? How many were really hit? Without darkening the smoke, the ground edits would be a lot more obvious. Dark smoke on the ground without the dark smoke in the sky, again ground edits would be more obvious.
435 posted on 08/06/2006 12:49:53 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: an amused spectator

I guess things got hot for Yahoo.

"Sorry, the page you requested was not found.
The story or page you were trying to access may have expired.

If you are having trouble locating a destination on Yahoo! News, try visiting the Yahoo! News home page or browse through the News site index. Also, you may find what you're looking for if you try searching below.
"

BUT they did have the photo up hours after the "picture kill" edict went out. I only went to Yahoo after I saw the thread.


436 posted on 08/06/2006 12:52:09 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: ArmstedFragg

Answering my own question....

Their language is a bit convoluted. The actual kill time is at the bottom of the photo's caption, and is around 3am today. The GMT reference in the caption reproduced in this thread is the time the faked photo was first transmitted, not the kill time.

The head post on this thread omits the actual kill time, but you can see it on the caption of the actual photo on Yahoo.


437 posted on 08/06/2006 1:01:23 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg
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To: null and void

No, I'm serious. Surely a professional photographer would know that it looked like crap. And the original had just as much smoke. I don't get it.


438 posted on 08/06/2006 1:03:01 PM PDT by Raebie
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To: ArmstedFragg

I think that time was an identifier of the photo, not a timestamp on the kill notification.


439 posted on 08/06/2006 1:03:03 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: Raebie
For a billion or so people lying to people of other faiths is a religious requirement.

See al Taqiyya...

440 posted on 08/06/2006 1:09:37 PM PDT by null and void (Bipartisanship: when the Stupid Party & the Evil Party agree on something that is both stupid & evil)
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