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Reuters Caught in Photo Fiasco
Reuters, the company founded in the 1850s by a German-Jew and best known for its international news service, has fired Lebanese freelance photographer Adnan Hajj after learning that he had altered a photo depicting the destruction wrought by an Israeli air bombardment. Hajj doctored the photo to show more smoke than was actually present at the event. Reuters pulled the picture after bloggers began suggesting that the image had been altered. Though Hajj denies deliberately altering the picture, Reuters has withdrawn all of Hajj's photos after they discovered he had also doctored a photo of an Israeli warplane. Hajj has supplied material to Reuters since 1993. Some now contend that Reuters' credibility is highly suspect and also attack the major media outlets for not extensively covering the story.
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Media bias
It's enough to make one suspect the media is biased against Israel!
This isn't as bad as Dan Rather's 2004 election imbroglio, but further evidence for the two people who still believe the mainstream media is impartial.
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In Depth Photo Fraud Analysis
http://www.zombietime.com/reuters_photo_fraud/
This site carries a lenghtly analysis of side by side originals & frauds, digital zooms to reveal Photoshop work and even repeat photos re-used for news. Often the effects are pro-Hezbollah and anti-Israel in terms of spin by Reuters.
Makes you wonder - why would the media necessarily choose sides with Hezbollah?
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Pictures that Lie
News.com has an interesting collection of 15 pictures that have been altered in some way. They have all appeared in the media or were otherwise widely circulated.
They include a variety of pictures including Time's darkening of O.J. Simpson on the June 1994 cover to National Geographic's attempt to move the Great Pyramids in 1982.
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The Digital Darkroom has not ushered in a new era of photography manipulation. In an announcement over another manipulation issue in 2003, the National Press Photographers Association prides itself on the mantra, 'In documentary photojournalism, it is wrong to alter the content of a photograph in any way (electronically, or in the darkroom) that deceives the public.'
This is not to say it's never done, especially with heat of the moment photo-journalism. In the 35mm days, the photographer either had to have a fast motor drive and bracket every shot or miss out on the action. The motor drive enabled multiple frames per second and bracketing adjusts the exposure to ensure one of those frames is exposed properly. But in that crucial moment, the photographer may have only had one shot. The traditional darkroom allows dodging and burning, a process of lightening and darkening specific locations. Smudging. Contrast adjustment. Over/Under-exposure. Just about everything you find in Photoshop today - could be done, ableit with more effort, in the traditional darkroom. While that level of manipulation was largely considered necessary, dodging and burning could completely remove backgrounds or subjects. Careful cropping and reprojection could insert or remove subjects into a frame. Even National Geographic made readers raise an eyebrow when it was discovered they moved Egypt's pyramids to make the photo more appealling in a 1982 cover. It's definitely an old practice but far more prevalent today and almost harder to detect.