Micro Persuasion: Reuters in Blog Storm Over Questionable Photo

Sunday, August 06, 2006

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.)

Posted at 02:34 PM in Citizen Journalism, Journalism | Permalink

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