Not only do AP and Reuters accept pictures that have been doctored by stringers, they accept the words and the foundation for the story. Who are these people who produce their news-who knows, and they don't care.

I cannot wait to hear a democRAT complain "who cares about a doctored photo when Israel is killing innocents?"

The MSM is becoming more and more irrelavent by the day...

Rathergate? How about Reutergate? Traitorous, terrorist loving scum...

But hidden in the last paragraph of the Jerusalem Post report on the subject is this:

The scene was photographed by Adnan Hajj, who had also photographed the aftermath of the Israeli attack on Kana last week, in which the Lebanese initially claimed 58 fatalities, but could later only confirm 28.

Ever since the pictures came out about the incident in Qana (Kana at the Post), many places on the blogosphere have questioned the accuracy of the reporting and the pictures. Now we see the same person involved with both incidents. Very suspicious and I think they've been caught red-handed. And guess who by? Bloggers. Print media, MSM, your days are numbered.

Yep. The Liberal news organizations make up lies like it's no-one's business!!

This is the kind of stuff that people in America see, and believe it, for crying out loud! without ever even one question!!

The media and liberal's go hand in hand to try and destroy America by trumping the truth, and we CANNOT let it happen, we must STOP! the media from regurgitating the liberal lies and propaganda, WE MUST!!

Jeremiah

Remember the model that was in all of the odd Qana picutre with the vest, stubble, glasses? I swear I just saw him on Fox last night in some video I assume they borrowed from some media outlet. Did not get a recording of the show to go back, bu I swear it was him..

GOP 4 ME,
Ditto, couldn't have said it any better!

Rev,

I hadn't realised that - just more indication of why its stupid to have our MSMers over in enemy territory. We didn't have Berlin correspondents to get Hitler's reaction to Normandy, after all...what possible purpose can a reporter have in enemy territory? Only to be a megaphone for enemy propaganda, witting or otherwise.

Reporters are safer in enemy territory, and they are there to photograph innocent civilians being harmed! PROPAGANDA. LIES. Civilians aren't being targeted in Lebanon as in Israel. Then the print media and the rest of the leftist intellectuals can grant them photojournalism awards for their courage and the story their photos tell.

Thank God for the internet! Sorry Algore.

Al Reuters is at it again! Their blatant slant in coverage emboldens the terrorist as indicated in the following headline:

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hizbollah rockets killed 12 soldiers and at least three civilians in Israel on Sunday, the deadliest day of the war for Israel, as Lebanon rejected a draft U.N. resolution to end the 26-day-old conflict.

Oh wait! That is a pro-Israeli headline. How could that be?

Barney,

Just 'cause a liar tells the truth from time to time doesn't excuse the actual lies..

You’re right Mark, after I saw that photo I thought, Israel couldn’t be bombing Beirut? Hezbollah is firing rockets in the south, and Israel’s stated goal is to create a “buffer zone in the south” but the photo must be correct? I was so confused.

Thank you Mark for showing me the errors of my ways, and confirming to me that Israel is not bombing Beirut or Christian parts of Beirut.

They believe their readers are so blindly going to follow everything they post, they do not believe doctoring a photo is wrong, as along as "their" agenda is moved foward. Unfortunately, there are a majority of folks that will do just that ...

Thank you Mark for showing me the errors of my ways...

Why Mark wastes his time with likes of you I'll never know.

"Oh wait! That is a pro-Israeli headline. How could that be?"

Christ Blarney, could you possibly be more irrelevant. I cant imagine a more useless commenter than your sad self.

I love how reuters apologizes. "Reuters news agency issued a statement acknowledging that "photo editing software was improperly used on this image"

I guess for reuters properly using photo editing software amounts to nobody catching it.

Who'd have thought at the start of the 21st century we'd be forced to fact-check the mainstream media?

So much for progress.

Thank goodness for the blogosphere- I feel sorry for all those people out there who rely on TV and newspapers for their news of what's going on in the world.

Reuters' mission statement says that "Reuters has strict policies in place to ensure adherence to these principles. We are committed to accurate and balanced reporting. Errors of fact are always promptly corrected and clearly published."

Reuters claims that they have the most seasoned and experienced editors of any news wire. A question that really needs to be asked here is this: If amateur photographers and members of the blogosphere could so easily pick up on this blatant error and distortion, how is even remotely possible that the Reuters editors missed it???

This is not even to mention the less than honest tenure of the photographer, Adnan Hajj. Reuters also claims not to take sides or use inflammatory language except for when they are using direct quotes from the photographers. What? Do they have some sort of HONOR CODE at the agency, where they trust the integrity and truth of what a given photgrapher writes as an attachment to a given photo. Most of these photographers, especially those in the Middle East, are free-lance workers from the area. Reuters is going to be that diliquent and just believe what any photographer says about a given event??? If that's the case, that's just shotty poor journalism and very poor journalistic standards. It just leads to another reason to distrust and question anything coming from the MSM.
-OC

*Shakes head*

Just because every story isn't slanted, or every headline isn't a distorton doesn't mean there isn't a bias. I'm sorry, we're all friggin human beings we've all got a bias and we put it in everything we do.

How can folks on one hand say Fox is slanted and ignore any liberal voices on it and then on the other pull out a non slanted headline and say it's "proof" the rest of the media isn't biased?

Barney,
They altered the photo to make it look like there was more smoke. Why would they do that? If you did that on a paper in college, exxagerated the damage caused by something, they'd kick you out of school. If a business managaer or accountant exxagerates numbers, they can be sued and/or arrested. If a lawyer does it, they can be disbarred and held in contempt. But no one holds the media responsible for anything they do. And you can bet that will change very soon. Bush et al fired shots over their bow the last time when NYT aided the terrorists by teaching them our tricks. The press is digging its own grave, and in the end it will be their corruption and arrogance that leads to their being held responsible for reckless endangerment of Americans citizens and soldiers at home and abroad. They are like those who governed Vichy France, the ones who betray with appeasement and good intent.

“They altered the photo to make it look like there was more smoke.” Posted by morris

Did you even bother to look at the photo? Only an idiot (maybe you?) would not notice the digital distortion and shadow image. Do you really think that more smoke is going to change hearts and minds. Like bombing a building(s) is not bad enough? If CBS showed footage of New Orleans with water levels two feet higher or lower (Katrina)would it change the facts on the ground?

Please, people are dying, cites are being destroyed and a country is in ruin (a pro western democracy). Meanwhile the “Decider” is chopping wood and the SoS is tickling the ivories.

Blarney, could you possibly be more irrelevant. I cant imagine a more useless commenter than your sad self.

Another keefer "See, I told you so." I've been saying the same thing for months now, and all that's happened is that Blarney's finally improved his writing. Still parrots the same party-line nonsense, but at least we can read it.

What's your take on Blarney, "GOP 4 ME?"

Barney,

Alternately, the photo indicates that things aren't nearly as bad as MSM reports and/or enemy propaganda statements (I know, often indistinquishable) make it - you know, just perhaps the Israelis are not wantonly bombing and killing civilians but are very carefully targeting terrorists and their facilities...in fact, it might be that the Israeli bombing is so effective and accurate that the terrorists are making up atrocities.

This is what I mean by "think", Barney...think about it all. Let go of your hatred of President Bush and THINK about what is going on...

Barney,
You're still not getting it. We don't know the facts on the ground because first they're reporting fifty something dead, and it turns out to be thirty something. I guess I must be an idiot, because I still can't figure out why they'd over report casualties and damage and apparently you can't either because you didn't answer my question about it. And you need to check into some psychology of decision making because in fact people do tend to filter (accept or reject) later information based on the first picture they have of what happened. If the first picture is of Hezbollah firing rockets at Israeli cities a block away from Qana, then later they're more likely to accept information confirming that picture. If the first picture is people posed to emphasize human suffering, that is the picture they will look for further information to confirm. This is why it's gross misconduct for a news agency to do what they're doing by emphasizing the human casualties in Lebanon long after people have forgotten about the ice cream parlor terrorists blew up in Israel killing and maiming children and their mothers. And if you had read anything about decision making you'd know that unconscious thought tends to make better decisions when it's not bogged down by the limits of conscious awareness, that thinking about something else leads to better decisions, and that's what chopping wood does, just like that's what reading to children on 9/11 did. Get the research before you gripe. Loran Nordgren has compiled quite a bit of it.

Talk about media bias! This what you posted:

“Basing her entire report on one of the most powerful supporters of the Syrian occupation and who heads a militia allied to Hezbollah, Noueihid gives Berri the full power of the credibility of Reuters.”

Here is the first paragraph, after the lead, of the Reuter's story:

“Lebanese foreign ministry official Nouhad Mahmoud gave the 15 council members an amendment calling for Israel to pull out of southern Lebanon, in addition to an end to hostilities.”

Did you see what the Lebanese foreign minister said?

Now let’s go down further in the story to get the money quote:

“"Lebanon, and all of Lebanon, rejects any resolution that is outside these seven points," Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, who has been negotiating on behalf of Hizbollah, said in Beirut.”

Did you notice that Reuter's identified Berri as the spokesperson for Hizbollah? Why was that missing from your analysis of “media bias”? Would you like to explain?

“I guess I must be an idiot, because I still can't figure out why they'd over report casualties…” posted by morris

The initial reports of causalities from 9/11 was over 6,000. Revisions to the causality numbers were occurring as late as Dec of 2003.

You said “over report” as if the reporters deliberately lied in their stories. You know that is not true. They reported the facts as the facts were presented to them, and not just by Hezbollah, but by the democratically elected government of Lebanon.

Yea, Reuters is fair and balanced, Al Qaida is a bunch of "freedom fighters" and Hezbollah are a legitimate response to the evil Zionist entity - they're all as accurate as the statement that Barney is ummm like totally just tryin' you know like lookin' for da troot, man. Barney, nobody's buyin' your Leftist warped version of reality. Do you like being so wrong? Is this the only way you can get someone to pay attention to you? Get some friends, dude.

"Another keefer "See, I told you so." I've been saying the same thing for months now, and all that's happened is that Blarney's finally improved his writing. Still parrots the same party-line nonsense, but at least we can read it.

What's your take on Blarney, "GOP 4 ME?""
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Well, this is not so serious anymore, it is just getting seriously hilariously confusing!!

Jeremiah

The phony Reuters picture seems now to be one of many the photographer "enhanced." More Jawa Report and Dan Riehl's site.

Not only are more phony pictures turning up but so, too, is evidence of plagiarism. This guy has been fired from Reuters, and he's not going to be working for anybody except maybe Al Jazeera now.

***Flashback: "Reuters employee issues 'Zionist pig' death threat"

Ynet News.com:
by Yaakov Lappin

Worker suspended after telling American blogger: 'I look forward to day when you pigs get your throats cut'

A Reuters employee has been suspended after sending a death threat to an American blogger.

The message, sent from a Reuters internet account, read: "I look forward to the day when you pigs get your throats cut."

It was sent to Charles Johnson, owner of the Little Green Footballs (LGF) weblog, a popular site which often backs Israel and highlights jihadist terrorist activities.

Freedom,

But, but, but...that doesn't mean he couldn't be entirely unbiased in his reporting, right? I mean, our MSMers are demigods who are immune to the normal passions of the human race, aren't they?

More confessions...

I'll bet this doesn't get the extended front page coverage of the original anti-Israel story!!!!!

(AP), Aug 07 11:26 AM US/Eastern...

"The Lebanese prime minister said one person was killed in an Israeli air raid Monday in the southern border village of Houla, lowering the death toll from 40. Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said at a news conference that he had based the initial tally on unspecified information that he had received."

"He offered no other explanation for the error."

A rather large error!

AAR

A rather large error!

Maybe the "one" was really obese, you know, like Michael Moore or Fat Teddy Kennedy. A bomb going off next to someone like that would fling blubber in all directions for miles. The resultant foul-smelling gas explosion once the gas bag was ruptured would show up on earthquake detectors in Japan.

I don't suppose this is a good time to bring up Bush's photo-doctoring incident...I think the word is "hypocrisy"

Rev,

Good point!

Perhaps they were counting bodies in an enhanced, objective, and slightly retouched photo from an "unbiased" journalist!

TEO,

Are you saying that President Bush personally doctored photos?

Perhaps you are talking about those "twins" in a political ad. If so, let's start with the left wing DimOcRats political advertising!

AAR

you mean this? Is that the best you can do?

I think the word is "desperation" on your part.

Matt.

yes, that would be the doctoring I was talking about.

I am sure that Bush's example of photo-editing, is completely benign, but anything to the contrary must be evil propaganda meant to topple the benevolent reign of Der Leader.

What do I have to be desperate about, it's the Republicans who are on the verge of losing control of congress.

Troll bounced, still doesn't get message - GET LOST TROLL.

How come every time I read a TEO or Barney comment, I have the urge to report an inappropriate comment. But then I decide not to, and just go and barf. I'm with the Rev, bounce these insipid trolls, they add nothing to the discourse of sane people.

Reuters, the international news agency, has dispensed with the services of a freelance photographer after discovering that he had doctored a picture of the aftermath of an Israeli air attack on Beirut and other events in the conflict.
The photo, by Lebanese freelancer Adnan Hajj, had been altered so it showed more smoke than was in the original.

Dickdee,

Report me, I could care less

Barney,
You're not seeing history from the perspective in which it was lived. 9/11 deaths were vastly over reported. The media at the time thought it was evidence of a Bush screw up. They didn't expect Bush the Protector and Leader to rise from those ashes.
Rev,
Do you think that the Lebanese version of the old distraction, "Look, the Pope!" is "Look, it's forty innocent civilians murdered by Israel!" He's probably in his office right now having a good laugh at the media, saying: "Made you look!"