Reuters in Blog Storm Over Questionable Photo
The Reuters news agency is facing a huge blog storm over an allegedly manipulated image from Lebanon. Little Green Footballs, a highly influential political blog, shows how Reuters seemingly used Photoshop's cloning tool to add more smoke to the image. The episode is reminiscent of the faked memos that rocked CBS during the 2004 elections. Reuters has since responded by withdrawing the photograph and suspending the reporter.
(Via Jeff Jarvis.)
Why they would do this is beyond me. With the Rather thing, it made sense because someone faked those docs to get a juicy story about Bush. But there are hundreds of shots of Beirut and Lebanon which are even more intense then the doctored photo. Very strange.
Posted by: ted | Sunday, August 06, 2006 at 03:00 PM
I'm glad that they corrected the error and suspended the photographer. I don't really see any evidence that Reuters--the agency itself--was involved in doctoring the photo. It looks to me that the photographer was acting on his own.
Posted by: Jim | Sunday, August 06, 2006 at 05:39 PM
Looking at bomb damage photos is probably boring after seeing a million of them.
Next time if they want to enhance their photos, they should send them to me.
I have photographic evidence that Israel has Flying Saucers
http://theheadlemur.typepad.com/ravinglunacy/2006/08/bad_photo_manip.html
Posted by: alan herrell - the head lemur | Monday, August 07, 2006 at 09:57 AM