Reuters may be the worst offender, but CNN and PBS have disgraced themselves with their one-sided hysterical coverage.
Reuters withdraws all photos by freelancer Mon Aug 7, 2006 10:46 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - 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. Global Picture Editor Tom Szlukovenyi called the measure precautionary but said the fact that two of the images by photographer Adnan Hajj had been manipulated undermined trust in his entire body of work. "There is no graver breach of Reuters standards for our photographers than the deliberate manipulation of an image," Szlukovenyi said in a statement. "Reuters has zero tolerance for any doctoring of pictures and constantly reminds its photographers, both staff and freelance, of this strict and unalterable policy." The news and information agency announced the decision in an advisory note to its photo service subscribers. The note also said Reuters had tightened editing procedures for photographs from the conflict and apologized for the case. Removing the images from the Reuters database excludes them from future sale. Reuters ended its relationship with Hajj on Sunday after it found that a photograph he had taken of the aftermath of an Israeli air strike on suburban Beirut had been manipulated using Photoshop software to show more and darker smoke rising from buildings. An immediate enquiry began into Hajj's other work. It established on Monday that a photograph of an Israeli F-16 fighter over Nabatiyeh, southern Lebanon and dated Aug 2, had also been doctored to increase the number of flares dropped by the plane from one to three. "Manipulating photographs in this way is entirely unacceptable and contrary to all the principles consistently held by Reuters throughout its long and distinguished history. It undermines not only our reputation but also the good name of all our photographers," Szlukovenyi said. "This doesn't mean that every one of his 920 photographs in our database was altered. We know that not to be the case from the majority of images we have looked at so far but we need to act swiftly and in a precautionary manner." The two altered photographs were among 43 that Hajj filed directly to the Reuters Global Pictures Desk since the start of the conflict on July 12 rather than through an editor in Beirut, as was the case with the great majority of his images. Filing drills have been tightened in Lebanon and only senior staff will now edit pictures from the Middle East on the Global Pictures Desk, with the final check undertaken by the Editor-in-Charge, Reuters said. Hajj worked for Reuters as a non-staff contributing photographer from 1993 until 2003 and again since April 2005. Most of his work was in sports photography, much of it outside Lebanon. Hajj was not in Beirut on Monday and was not responding to calls. He told Reuters on Sunday that the image of the Israeli air strike on Beirut had dust marks which he had wanted to remove. Questions about the accuracy of the photograph arose after it appeared on news Web sites on Saturday. Several blogs, including a number which accuse the media of distorted coverage of the Middle East conflict, said the photograph had been doctored.
Fox News, fair and balanced... <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=1158852>
Uh, yeah... great argument! Who/where are the Jayson Blair's, Dan Rather's, Adnan Hajj's, & doctored photo's at Fox?
But that is "fair and balanced" to the libtards. Their believers can lie, forge memos, fake photos and make stuff up, and it's the same as reporting facts from the other side.
And here's the libtards trade rag, the New York Times with a walking dead guy: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/08/new-york-times-busted-in-hezbollah.html One would think the MSM would clue in that folks are watching, but they're as dense as the rest of the libtards.
I love the way this guy is pretending to be dead... he has his hat safely tucked under his arm against his ribs!! Check TGreggs link to watch his miraculous live/ dead photo shoot! TGregg - 4 Libs - 0
" The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program. Saddam Hussein has held numerous meetings with Iraqi nuclear scientists, a group he calls his "nuclear mujahideen" -- his nuclear holy warriors. Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear program in the past. Iraq has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons. If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy, or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year. And if we allow that to happen, a terrible line would be crossed. Saddam Hussein would be in a position to blackmail anyone who opposes his aggression. He would be in a position to dominate the Middle East. He would be in a position to threaten America. And Saddam Hussein would be in a position to pass nuclear technology to terrorists." George W. Bush October 7, 2002 I'll take a doctored photo of an exsiting war over trumped charges to start a bogus war any day...
Interesting non - arguments. The non argument that pleases most retards: Oh the flames were'nt that big at all, so the whole photo must be a fake !!! Where a sane neutral observer would ask: were the buildings bombed and were there flames? And the answer: Yes the buildings were bombed. Yes there were flames. Yes people probably died. Similarly with the plane dropping flares. The question is was the plane dropping flares? The answer is: Yes This reminds me of the non - argument on wether Bush ever served. Did he serve? No, not really. When you serve in the national guard many people are supposed to remember having served personally alongside with a person running for president. Out of thousands who were supposed to have trained with him, no one ever remembers even seeing him. But for the retards, the argument is not wether he served or not, but wether the individual making the statement is a drunk. Does the credibility of the person making the statements matter? yes it does. Does that mean that invalidates the others who also say the same thing that Bush did not serve? No, not at all. These retards show every signs of the confused reasonings that follow along the path of those who have Dissociative Identity Disorder caused by un healed trauma.