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"Charles Farley" |
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06 Aug 2006 10:15:00 PM |
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Reuters Caught Working for HizbAllah |
Reuters
August 6, 2006
Reuters drops Lebanese photographer over doctored image
LONDON -- Reuters, the global news and information agency, told a
freelance Lebanese photographer on Sunday it would not use any more of
his pictures after he doctored an image of the aftermath of an Israeli
air strike on Beirut.
The photograph by Adnan Hajj, which was published on news Web sites on
Saturday, showed thick black smoke rising above buildings in the
Lebanese capital after an Israeli air raid in the war with the Shi'ite
Islamic group Hizbollah, now in its fourth week.
Reuters withdrew the doctored image on Sunday and replaced it with the
unaltered photograph after several news blogs said it had been
manipulated using Photoshop software to show more smoke.
Reuters has strict standards of accuracy that bar the manipulation of
images in ways that mislead the viewer.
"The photographer has denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the
image, saying that he was trying to remove dust marks and that he made
mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under," said
Moira Whittle, the head of public relations for Reuters.
"This represents a serious breach of Reuters' standards and we shall
not be accepting or using pictures taken by him," Whittle said in a
statement issued in London.
Hajj worked for Reuters as a non-staff freelance, or contributing
photographer, from 1993 until 2003 and again since April 2005.
He was among several photographers from the main international news
agencies whose images of a dead child being held up by a rescuer in the
village of Qana, south Lebanon, after an Israeli air strike on July 30
have been challenged by blogs critical of the mainstream media's
coverage of the Middle East conflict.
Reuters and other news organizations reviewed those images and have all
rejected allegations that the photographs were staged.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-08-06T215602Z_01_L06301298_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-REUTERS.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
See also:
Reuters employee issues 'Zionist pig' death threat
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3256534,00.html
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| User: "Cormagh" |
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| Title: Re: Reuters Caught Working for HizbAllah |
06 Aug 2006 10:25:55 PM |
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Charles Farley wrote:
Reuters
August 6, 2006
Reuters drops Lebanese photographer over doctored image
LONDON -- Reuters, the global news and information agency, told a
freelance Lebanese photographer on Sunday it would not use any more of
his pictures after he doctored an image of the aftermath of an Israeli
air strike on Beirut.
The photograph by Adnan Hajj, which was published on news Web sites on
Saturday, showed thick black smoke rising above buildings in the
Lebanese capital after an Israeli air raid in the war with the Shi'ite
Islamic group Hizbollah, now in its fourth week.
Reuters withdrew the doctored image on Sunday and replaced it with the
unaltered photograph after several news blogs said it had been
manipulated using Photoshop software to show more smoke.
Reuters has strict standards of accuracy that bar the manipulation of
images in ways that mislead the viewer.
"The photographer has denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the
image, saying that he was trying to remove dust marks and that he made
mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under," said
Moira Whittle, the head of public relations for Reuters.
"This represents a serious breach of Reuters' standards and we shall
not be accepting or using pictures taken by him," Whittle said in a
statement issued in London.
Hajj worked for Reuters as a non-staff freelance, or contributing
photographer, from 1993 until 2003 and again since April 2005.
He was among several photographers from the main international news
agencies whose images of a dead child being held up by a rescuer in the
village of Qana, south Lebanon, after an Israeli air strike on July 30
have been challenged by blogs critical of the mainstream media's
coverage of the Middle East conflict.
Reuters and other news organizations reviewed those images and have all
rejected allegations that the photographs were staged.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-08-06T215602Z_01_L06301298_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-REUTERS.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
See also:
Reuters employee issues 'Zionist pig' death threat
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3256534,00.html
Looking at the pictures,
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-08-06T215602Z_01_L06301298_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-REUTERS.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
it seems a little strange. I can't say for sure, which picture is more
striking. The "doctored" one, or the the unaltered one. They both seem
to show a section of a city on fire with a lot of black smoke. Is this
just me?
Cormagh
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Reuters Caught Working for HizbAllah |
06 Aug 2006 10:39:38 PM |
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Cormagh wrote:
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-08-06T215602Z_01_L06301298_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-REUTERS.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
it seems a little strange. I can't say for sure, which picture is more
striking. The "doctored" one, or the the unaltered one. They both seem
to show a section of a city on fire with a lot of black smoke. Is this
just me?
Cormagh
The same here..
If anything the 'undoctored' pic is more impressive because it shows
the depth of the bombing site.. the middle background cloud is
unobscured showing greater extent of the bombed area. Apparently the
critics were unable to leave bad-enough alone..
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| User: "Charles Farley" |
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| Title: Re: Reuters Caught Working for HizbAllah |
06 Aug 2006 10:45:40 PM |
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wrote:
Apparently the critics were unable to leave bad-enough alone.
Is Reuters a news outlet, or "critics"?
See also:
Reuters employee issues 'Zionist pig' death threat
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3256534,00.html
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| User: "Independent_Voter" |
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| Title: Re: Reuters Caught Working for HizbAllah |
06 Aug 2006 11:11:32 PM |
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Last week CNN reporter admits: I transmitted Hizballah propaganda and
NOW this?
There goes their credibility (whatever credibility they had)
The drive-by media being exposed as frauds everyday
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