” “The photographer has denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying that he was trying to remove dust marks and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under,” said Moira Whittle, the head of public relations for Reuters. “

I’m a Photoshop dabbler and when I first looked at the image, “Clone tool” popped right into my mind. I’ve got grandkids who could do better and do regularly.

Moira is doing damage control as fast as her little legs can carry her.

Who, in these days, takes all of their news from just one source? Such as FoxNews?

Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq, or promoted the companies’ products.

Investigators from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are seeking information about stations across the country after a report produced by a campaign group detailed the extraordinary extent of the use of such items.

At a breakfast speech Friday, David Broder, the legendary columnist for The Washington Post, was asked how journalism has changed during his lifetime. One of the main points of his answer was a deep concern about how much information is being disseminated on the Internet without any editing or factchecking.

I always tell them the same thing, “My bird died and doesn’t need a toilet anymore.”

I agree, it used to be so easy, pick up a paper, and there it was, like we were there in person, the news showing how things really were.

Now you pick up a paper and its like picking up a snake that’ll bite you or
getting taken by the Nigerian Bank scam.

Talk about killing the goose that laid the golden egg! All the media had to do was straight reporting but.somewhere along the line they decided that propaganda was the way to go. After that, it was the slippery slope all the way and the endpoint is Hell and irrelevance; once your reputation is gone what have you got–nothing.

The arab world is a backwater, with a GDP less than that of Spain, even counting all the arab oil. In the arab world, a bestselling book prints maybe 5,000 copies at the most. In all the arabic world of 300,000,000 people, fewer books are published than in tiny Greece, of 40 million people.

Arabs know that arabs lie, as a cultural custom. Arabs enjoy arab media, but they do not really trust it. They know no one else trusts arab media either–so they do whatever it takes to get their material published in western media, rather than backwater arab media.

What westerners are just now discovering is that western media is willing to lie (Dan Rather) as well. How rare for Reuters to admit its error.

Associated Press:

“Charles Duelfer, the lead U.S. inspector who announced the negative WMD findings two years ago, has watched uncertainly as TV sound bites, bloggers and politicians try to chip away at “the best factual account,” his group’s densely detailed, 1,000-page final report.

“It is easy to see what is accepted as truth rapidly morph from one representation to another,” he said in an e-mail. “It would be a shame if one effect of the power of the Internet was to undermine any commonly agreed set of facts.”

The creative “morphing” goes on.”

– CBS News,
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/06/ap/national/mainD8JB1EO80.shtml

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Despite the fact that it was an irresponsible action, it hardly changes the facts about Israel’s destruction of Lebanon. Which is far worse than the Reuter’s photograph could ever depict.

I don’t think Reuter’s needs to apologize. It has fired the photographer. Arguing there was some kind of ulterior motive is ridiculous - the kind of speculative nonsense that provides a distraction from the devastation and escalation that continues.

And as a dabbler, we can take your qualifed assertions with the utmost seriousness they deserve, lol.

Boy - with all that has happened in Lebanon and Israel yesterday, you’d think(or hope)the dicussion would be on something relevant…..

But for the sake of having a decent discussion, and seeing as you’ve designated yourself the official monitor of the board, I’ll try to refrain…

I am a technical “person” who at times, consults with Neo regarding the trolls, who think they are anonymous but who, in reality are not, given technical means.

But, I agree and allow me to point you and others to Pajamas Media’s round up of Reutergate.

It would appear that other Photoshopped images are being found almost hourly. It would also appear that the photographer, who has been “suspended” but probably not fired, is quite possibly a group identity for several Islamic propagandists.

Yes, themselves. That’s what all the spam-trolling is, after all… desperately screaming at the real world, in the hope that it will relent and let them go back to their multiculturalist fantasies.

Hey, it works on their parents.

Right, and you get to determine what’s relevant, right Yhamir? Be nice if that were the case.

BTW, still waiting for a response in the previous thread.

“The photographer has denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying that he was trying to remove dust marks and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under,” said Moira Whittle, the head of public relations for Reuters. ”

And he provided no link. The strange thing here is that the doctoring of the photo was digital manipulation. He was not working in some primative dark room with bad lighting and dust, or if he was it doesn’t matter because he was using a computer. Someone is telling a bald face lie.

Well, never mind, then.

Where did you read that?

Like that scentofcrap character who likes to share his bigotry by posting from hate sites, or changing the subject to Islam and his obvious ignorance of it.

Poor soul…

Those filters do not produce effects like the smoke in those photos, though. Only the Clone tool does that, and it’s not used by professional photo editors simply because it’s so obviously fake in most situations.

I’m willing to bet this isn’t the first time, nor will it be the last.

Or fake buildings, and fake civilians being destroyed by fake Israeli hi-tech weaponry.?

Just checking…

Because it’s not really news Jenn - except for the paranoid, delusional Jewish facists and they’re hypocritical ‘Christian’ supporters.

As I say, there is a war going on, and thousands are without homes, families and are dying as we speak, countries are preparing for escalation, markets are shaky, etc etc

Priorities, eh?

Islam is an old violent religion that never grew up, unlike Judaism and Christianity. Hinduism is fortunately not a messianic religion of apocalyptic goals, like Islam. Even Communism, with its over a hundred million murdered, was never as barbaric as Islam.

The smoke photo was doctored to make a single strike look like an indiscriminate strike. That’s the kind of evidence you need for your points, and, since it doesn’t exist, Reuters has been manufacturing it for you.

We got it.

It was reported in Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/747018.html

” “The photographer has denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying that he was trying to remove dust marks and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under,” said Moira Whittle, the head of public relations for Reuters.”

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Those filters do not produce effects like the smoke in those photos, though. Only the Clone tool does that, and it’s not used by professional photo editors simply because it’s so obviously fake in most situations.

1)Thats the kind of assertion that would require you to provide some kind of proof.

2)A photograph of smoking coming from a missle strike doesn’t prove anything eitherway, I would offer.

3)There is plenty of evidence that Israel is indiscriminately targeting civilians. A doctored photograph that wouldn’t prove that anyway, really isn’t necessary.

You can’t be that stupid.

You just can’t….

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3286966,00.html

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-08-07T162027Z_01_L06301298_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-REUTERS.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002950988

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3287774,00.html

It’s not just one photo.

We know better.

“Indiscriminate” requires proof.

There isn’t any except what Reuters and their buddies have manufactured.

We know this, and you know this, and we know you know this.

As I say, try something else that hasn’t been disproven yet. You could have a couple of weeks free before somebody got around to it.

The photographer can lie all he wants; at this point no reasoable person is going to believe him.

Yhamir,

These photos represent useful propaganda for the Islamic radicals who provoked Israel by violent actions; the facts favor Israel, but pictures of dead children can quickly overcome facts and logic.

Hence ‘Green Helmet Dude’ and posing dead children for Reuters . . .

“You can’t be that stupid.

You just can’t….”

No, we can’t…but apparently you can.

We know better.”

Oh good.

Looking at the photos I’m struck at how insignifant the changes are.

But then I’m not a hysterical, ranting retard.

Oh well….

Sad, sad indeed. Perhaps he’d have more luck with the French.