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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002950988

NEW YORK Reuters admitted Sunday that it had published a doctored photograph of Beirut after an Israel strike on Saturday morning, the Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported. It said that it has fired Adnan Hajj, the Lebanese photographer who submitted the image.

On Monday, it added further charges, saying he had manipulated at least one other photo -- and that all of his recent pictures had been deleted from the news agency's data base.

Reuters also said today it had put in place a tighter editing procedure for images of the Middle East conflict to ensure that no photograph from the region would be transmitted to subscribers without review by the most senior editor on the Reuters Global Pictures Desk, according to a Reuters spokeswoman.

“There is no graver breach of Reuters standards for our photographers than the deliberate manipulation of an image," said Tom Szlukovenyi, Reuters Global Picture Editor, 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."

He added that the fact that Hajj had altered two of his photographs meant none of his work for Reuters could be trusted either by the news service or its users.

It all started with just one contested image, brought to light by bloggers: In the original picture, thin smoke can be seen rising over Beirut after a recent Israeli air strike; in the published photograph, thick, black smoke billows. "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, on Sunday.

"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.

On Sunday, Reuters removed the retouched shot and replaced it with the original. The next day, it reported finding the other altered image.

Its Monday statement, after describing the flap over the first image, reads: "An immediate enquiry began into Hajj’s other work. It found on Monday that a second photograph, of an Israeli F-16 fighter over Nabatiyeh, southern Lebanon and dated Aug 2, had been doctored to increase the number of flares dropped by the plane from one to three."

So is the enemy paying the media to make Israel look bad and have the rest of the world get on there case or is it just one bad reporter/photographer?
 
I think it's probably saying too much that the media is getting paid to make Israel look bad or whatever. This guy was up to no good by doctoring his pix, and there are probably others who are willing to do this. As long as we have highly charged events like this going on this kind of thing is going to happen.
 
shart1780 said:
The news media is incredibly liberal. Not too suprised.

Conservative BS rhetoric...

Conservatives enjoy making up stories about big ugly monsters to strike fear and rally the troops.
 
shart1780 said:
The news media is incredibly liberal. Not too suprised.

My local paper is run by members of a noted fundamentalist church. It's about as liberal as the John Birch Society. The New York Times may be liberal, but other media outlets are less so.
 
Well you can't say that some media outlets are truely far Left wing liberal.
 
I find that the dismissal of liberal bias in the media is often followed by accusations of conservative bias for Fox News or Drudge Report.

Manipulated pictures are no problem if the image fits the political framework within one operates.
 
It was a truly terrible Photoshop job. If you're going to doctor a photo, at least make it look real.

And stop this stupid "liberal media" bullshit. It has nothing to do at all with this issue, as the real blame belongs to the photographer. Reuters, obviously, fired him once they found out.

Melon
 
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ADNAN HAJJ / February 6, 2006
A Lebanese protester chanted slogans inside
the torched Danish Embassy in Beirut yesterday.


maybe in Feb
he was working for the right-wing media?
 
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i don't see much difference in these two pictures
it is the descriptions in the articles
I find hard to digest

yes they pulled the pictures
that is what any responsible agency would do.

my guess is that he gets paid by the published pictures
so he helped them a bit

This happens from time to time
and when the perpetrator is caught
he gets dealt with immediately

They darkened OJ's face to make him look more black
Most magazine images are enhanced

it is the newspapers that seem to take the harder line with manipulation

and that is a good thing
there is no evidence or suggestion of any newspaper encouraging or even condoning this guy's tactics

so give us something more than just hot air about media lies / take sides
 
deep said:
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i don't see much difference in these two pictures

I see the really bad Photoshop job in photo #1. Looks like he hasn't mastered proper use of the clone tool, because there's an obvious pattern...heh. Frankly, I don't know why he didn't just color correct photo #2 and go on his way.

Melon
 
nbcrusader said:
I find that the dismissal of liberal bias in the media is often followed by accusations of conservative bias for Fox News or Drudge Report.



the dismissal of the idea of a "liberal" media is because, 1) it doesn't exist, not nearly in the way as it's presented by the Right Wing Echo-Chamber and various media pundits, and 2) the mainstream newspapers and news sources such as CBS, the NYT, or Newsweek that are deemed "liberal" fall very much in the center of the political spectrum (insofar as their op-ed pieces are concerned; you'll see no such bleeding from the op-ed pages into the actual reporting) where as the newspapers and television programs that have been assigned as "balance" to the "left" media are unabashedly conservative in both their op-ed articles as well as their reporting (an exception to this might be the WSJ) so the net result is that the media, as a whole, is actually skewed to the right.
 
It is all a matter of perspective.

You can see it when our European friends view those leaning just left of center to be quite conservative.

Step back to a broader perspective and you will find the bias traveling in both directions.
 
nbcrusader said:
It is all a matter of perspective.

You can see it when our European friends view those leaning just left of center to be quite conservative.

Step back to a broader perspective and you will find the bias traveling in both directions.



:eyebrow:

this is way too vague to have much meaning. can you elaborate?
 
nbcrusader said:
:huh:

Conservative and liberal are not absolute labels - they depend in large part on the viewpont of the observer.



well, of course, but would you ever hear a conservative punding whining about the "liberal media" agree to such an insight?
 
Irvine511 said:
well, of course, but would you ever hear a conservative punding whining about the "liberal media" agree to such an insight?

They might if they were willing to engage in an intellectual discussion. That usually doesn't play well for a sound-bite driven pundit. :wink:
 
This has nothing to do with Liberal Media Bias it is about the way press agencies have to abide by the rules of their hosts (Hezbollah) or use foreign stringers and the way this alters the end product.
 
Time magazine stringer Christopher Allbritton, writing on his blog while reporting from southern Lebanon, casually illustrated this latter technique: “To the south, along the curve of the coast, Hezbollah is launching Katyushas, but I’m loathe to say too much about them. The Party of God has a copy of every journalist’s passport, and they’ve already hassled a number of us and threatened one.”
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=080806B

KURTZ: Richard Engel in Lebanon, let’s talk a little bit about your efforts to cover Hezbollah. Have you had instances in which Hezbollah guerillas have tried to interfere with your reporting?

ENGEL: Yes and no; and the reason I’m giving you that answer is that until now Hezbollah has been very difficult to cover. We’ve come into town several times and only found Hezbollah fighters. They don’t want to be on film. They will talk to us off camera, but when the cameras come out they suddenly go quiet.

They’ve not tried to stop us filming other events while we’re in the field, but they have, on several occasions, threatened reporters here in Tyre, south Lebanon. From the location where we’re standing right now, we’ve been able to see, today and on other days, outgoing Katyusha rockets. And on more than one occasion people from Hezbollah have come and said, “Do not film the locations of these rockets when they’re being launched.”

At one time, when we were talking and having a conversation with this Hezbollah representative, he said, “Look, we’re serious, we will kill you if you film these outgoing rockets.” So it is a threat, but when we’ve been out in the field, we’ve not had situations where they told us to stop filming.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0608/06/rs.01.html
 
Photographer + Civilians + Man Shooting Gun = Potential War Crime

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A Palestinian militant fires toward Israeli troops during an arrest raid in the West Bank village of Qabatiyeh near Jenin, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006. Four Palestinians were wounded when the army arrested an Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades militant, Palestinians sources said. The army said two Islamic Jihad militants were arrested during the operation. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)
 
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