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| BREAKING: Reuters Withdraws ALL Hajj Photos |
| 2006-08-07 |
| Hat tip: Power Line Reuters withdrew all 920 photographs by a freelance Lebanese photographer from its database on Monday after an urgent review of his work showed he had altered two images from the conflict between Israel and the armed group Hizbollah. How about staging - looked into that yet, guys? |
| Posted by:Barbara Skolaut |
| #7 Yet another Hajj photo: |
| Posted by: DMFD 2006-08-07 22:33 |
| #6 rjschwarz, they won't touch any of the 920, anymore, not even with 9 ft pole. If they tried after they were pulled...there is simply too many watching eyes. Of course, there are people (bloggers, etc.) That would go through Al-Rooter archives one pic by one pic and . This is just a beginning. AP would be next. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2006-08-07 20:52 |
| #5 Need to pick a larger area of smoke to clone... then smudge it... jeeez. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-08-07 17:49 |
#4 Hmmm...... Another photo found... |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2006-08-07 16:49 |
| #3 It's not a leap to assume that Reuters hires the kind of people it feels comfortable with -- that's fine, every company does that. That logic, though, quickly leads to realizing that Reuters may have a similar mindset -- and while they don't necessarily use photoshop, they nevertheless view and report the news through their own biased lenses. The sad thing is that they don't see it, won't admit it and of course, won't change. Similar to the recent report proving BBC bias -- and the BBC minimizing (and probably discounting) it. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2006-08-07 16:16 |
| #2 Reuters: Making up the news so you don't have too! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-08-07 15:25 |
| #1 They only pulled the photos because they didn't want to deal with them being exposed one after another. Easier to take them all down, examine them (as they should have done long ago) and rerelease the cleared ones quietly. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2006-08-07 15:10 |