Reply #181: Come on, PB [View All]

[mogster]

That was not careless behaviour, where are the dustmarks on the original?



There has been a little green football match between Reuters and the LGF before:

First Published: 05.29.06, 20:36
Latest Update: 05.30.06, 09:38
Reuters employee issues 'Zionist pig' death threat
Worker suspended after telling American blogger: 'I look forward to day when you pigs get your throats cut'
(...)
It was sent to Charles Johnson, owner of the Little Green Footballs (LGF) weblog, a popular site which often backs Israel and highlights jihadist terrorist activities.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3256534,00.html

Now, this article:

First Published: 08.06.06, 10:41
Latest Update: 08.06.06, 20:00
Reuters admits altering Beirut photo
(...)
Earlier, Charles Johnson, of the Little Green Footballs blog , which has exposed a previous attempt at fraud by a major American news corporation, wrote : "This Reuters photograph shows blatant evidence of manipulation. Notice the repeating patterns in the smoke; this is almost certainly caused by using the Photoshop “clone” tool to add more smoke to the image."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3286966,00.html

If you follow the links and links and links through the various blogs, there are theories everywhere about this guy (and other local freelancers), first and foremost based on the assumption that the world media doesn't see the Israeli suffering and that the reporting has a slant. That speculation (often consisting of so-called 'debunking' that does not disclose it's process) is targeted at all news photos, including the ambulances with bullet holes. All tied together now and 'verified' by this story.

The interesting thing about this is the incredibly infantile photoshopping that made it all the way into the Reuters web.