Posted by
Silvio Canto, Jr. on Monday, August 07, 2006 11:37:17 AM
Now, we hear that Reuters drops freelance Lebanese photographer over image:
"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."
The good news is that the bloggers picked up another media mistake.
Blogger Little Green Footballs is on top of this story! He is the one who noticed that the photos were a little strange, to say the least!
Who is going to apologize to Israel?
Who is going to go on Al Jazeera and say that the pictures were "doctored"?
Let's give Reuters credit for withdrawing the picture. However, the damage is done. By the way, there may be more than one picture. The Power Line has additional information!
Sooner or later, Western democracies will realize that we are fighting people that will do anything, and I mean anything, to win. They will blow up their own people, use friendly reporters and make every claim that they can get away.