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DISHONEST REPORTING: Reuters admits to doctoring Beirut photo
7 August 2006
Reuters news agency admitted on Sunday that it had digitally altered a photograph of an Israeli attack on Lebanon on Saturday, showing more smoke than was actually present.The photograph, as initially published, showed an aerial view of Beirut after an IAF attack, with two large pillars of smoke rising over the city. The caption read: Smoke billows from burning buildings destroyed during an overnight Israeli air raid on Beirut’s suburbs.
The agency has since withdrawn the photograph, issued an apology and released the unaltered picture. Its public relations department said the photographer had been suspended until the investigation was completed.Reuters was notified of the alteration by American bloggers who noticed repeating patterns within the smoke plumes, indicating that part of the image was duplicated several times.The scene was photographed by Adnan Hajj, who had also photographed the aftermath of the Israeli attack on Kana last week, in which the Lebanese initially claimed 58 fatalities, but could later only confirm 28.For more information, see the Jerusalem Post.
Tags:adnan hajj , doctored photos , jerusalem post , reuters
August 14th, 2006 at 2:22 am
still trying to justifying the killing of innocent people?, you won’t change my mind with your one way, one eyed comments, the fact is jews are doing what hitler did to them and now they still cry about what happened to them years ago, get over it.if you think i will shed a tear for your past i won’t, i am now sheding a tear for the palestinians and lebanese, the jewish plight is plain to see, slowly but surely take over as much land as you can and do it in the name of righteousness, well your wrong, jews are murderers in the first degree and they will all rot in hell, jews are the devils people and so are the american government.
September 4th, 2006 at 5:27 am
The Jews are your brothers, don’t believe me? Well who is Isaac and Ishmael? Brothers. There are no good or bad sides in this war. You cannot justify war or say something like God is on our side and the other side is the devils side, there is no spiritual or logical basis here, only opinions. It is clear that palestians and lebanese people hate jews, that is one fact. It is also clear that Israel will not back down and be destroyed, rather it will pursue its enemies all around and defeat them like was demonstrated in the many wars that have happened since the state of Israel was established.
The jews may be the devils people, but if allah is great and if allah is truely god, how come he can’t beat the jews? Maybe the jewish God YHWH is the true God? So far the jews have managed to defeat all the arab nations who have attacked them and even when they have outnumbered.
As far rotting in hell? You better believe hell is a real place! And it is not nice to condemn someone there. If you want to know about hell go to http://www.spiritlessons.com/ I will tell you one thing. Not many people will make it to Heaven, and most will end up in hell FOREVER, so don’t you EVER condemn someone to hell, because NO ONE deserves to go there or should go there.
October 13th, 2006 at 2:55 pm
How can someone say that Jews are trying to take over the world why would I shed a tear over the Palestians and Hezbollah for they have created there problems by trying get rid of the Jews. there were eight soldiers killed and 2 soldiers captured for and then Hezbollah launched rockets into Israel at inocent civilians. Then Israel warned the people and demanded there soldiers back then the war started and then the bombings started.