Reuters Photo Killed; Reuters Admits Manipulation
Reuters has killed that photoshopped picture of a burning Beirut, and admitted that it was manipulated.
The photographer has been a war photographer for a while, and was on hand at Qana. Presumably Reuters will be looking at his previous work for evidence of other alteration or manipulation.
UPDATE: Jeff Goldstein notes evidence of possible shenanigans by the photographer at Qana, and cites Charles Johnson as saying that the photo may still be doctored.
[…] UPDATE: Reuters admits it and pulls the photo. […]
Patterico’s Pontifications » Reuters Photo of Beirut Doctored to Increase Smoke (421107) — 8/6/2006 @ 9:30 amhttp://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=71595544&cdi=0
Another, see the image and check the text. The rockets are outgoing: 1) They dont have such precision. 2) The rocket engine only have fuel for the begin of flight.3) you can see the back tip of one. 4) the ground smoke is consistent with the fire and not with an explosion.
Cleret (147feb) — 8/6/2006 @ 2:19 pmDoes anybody still believe these newspapers ? Here is a pretty thorough debunking of the repeated faking of photos by this Reuters Photographer, who has now been “fired.” We’ll see. The MSM long ago became part of the Democratic party. Are they now becoming part of Hezbollah ?
Mike K (416363) — 8/6/2006 @ 4:56 pmSince the comments in the proper threads are closed, and I was gone during this dustup last week, I just want to state for the record that I’ve always known that TBogg was Valerie Plame. Also, I think that the reason that she’s decided to make an issue of this now is so that Greenwald has time to complete cloning his sockpuppet army. But that’s from just a cursory glance at the posts and comments from the past week, so if I’m wrong in any material way, please let me know.
Dan Collins (8312b6) — 8/7/2006 @ 5:08 pmSo how many other news photos are faked how many news reports are lies? i mean look at WALTER DURANTY he lied about STALIN and the USSR for the infamous NYTs and got a pulitzer for his lies
krazy kagu (8d6a8f) — 8/9/2006 @ 8:06 am