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Qana Photographer Caught Doctoring Photos From Lebanon
#5936518 - 08/06/06 09:35 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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It was a god-awful photochop job too. I can't believe the editors went along with it and published it. They would have never been called on it if not for bloggers.
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Reuters admits altering Beirut photo
A Reuters photograph of smoke rising from buildings in Beirut has been withdrawn after coming under attack by American web logs. The blogs accused Reuters of distorting the photograph to include more smoke and damage.
The photograph showed two very heavy plumes of black smoke billowing from buildings in Beirut after an Air Force attack on the Lebanese capital. Reuters has since withdrawn the photograph from its website, along a message admitting that the image was distorted, and an apology to editors.
Reuters withdraws doctored image
In the message, Reuters said that "photo editing software was improperly used on this image. A corrected version will immediately follow this advisory. We are sorry for any inconvience."
Reuters' head of PR Moira Whittle said in response: "Reuters has suspended a photographer until investigations are completed into changes made to a photograph showing smoke billowing from buildings following an air strike on Beirut. Reuters takes such matters extremely seriously as it is strictly against company editorial policy to alter pictures."
"As soon as the allegation came to light, the photograph, filed on Saturday 5 August, was removed from the file and a replacement, showing the same scene, was sent. The explanation for the removal was the improper use of photo-editing software," she added.
Earlier, Charles Johnson, of the Little Green Footballs blog , which has exposed a previous attempt at fraud by a major American news corporation, wrote : "This Reuters photograph shows blatant evidence of manipulation. Notice the repeating patterns in the smoke; this is almost certainly caused by using the Photoshop “clone” tool to add more smoke to the image."
Johnson added: "Smoke simply does not contain repeating symmetrical patterns like this, and you can see the repetition in both plumes of smoke. There’s really no question about it." A series of close ups are then posted on the blog, showing that "it’s not only the plumes of smoke that were 'enhanced.' There are also cloned buildings." The close ups do appear to show exact replicas of buildings appearing next to one another in the photograph.
The Sports Shooter web forum , used by professional photographers, also examined the photo, with many users concluding that the image has been doctored.
'Looks so obviously doctored' "I'll second the cloned smoke...but it looks so obvious that I don't know how the photographer could have gotten away with it," wrote one user.
After further research, Johnson posted a photograph he says is the original image taken before distortions were made, showing much lighter smoke rising. Other blogs have also analyzed the photographs, and reached similar conclusions, such as Left & Right , which states: "The photo has been doctored, quite badly."
The author of the Ace of Spades blog wrote: "Even I can see the very suspicious "clonings" of picture elements here. And I'm an idiot."
The Hot Air blog also looked at the photo, describing the image as "the worst Photoshop I have ever seen."
Adnan Hajj, the photographer who sent the altered image, was also the Reuters photographer behind many of the images from Qana – which have also been the subject of suspicions for being staged.
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Re: Qana Photographer Caught Doctoring Photos From Lebanon [Re: Catalysis]
#5936682 - 08/06/06 11:26 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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haha the clone stamp tool strikes again.
what morons.
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Re: Qana Photographer Caught Doctoring Photos From Lebanon [Re: Catalysis]
#5936726 - 08/06/06 11:50 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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What a surprise that the Hezbomedia distorts the facts.
What can you expect from goons that criticize the Israelis for their bombs but are so strangely silent about the bombs from the scumbags who started this mess.
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Re: Qana Photographer Caught Doctoring Photos From Lebanon [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#5936749 - 08/06/06 11:56 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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But but but the Jooooooos control the media. How can this be? I know, it's a Joooooo plot to distract from the mind control program they and the neocons learned at the knee of that arch brainwasher KKKarl Rove. Those crafty Joooos, Helmut is right, they are way too smart for the rest of us.
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Re: Qana Photographer Caught Doctoring Photos From Lebanon [Re: Catalysis]
#5937322 - 08/06/06 03:07 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Re: Qana Photographer Caught Doctoring Photos From Lebanon [Re: buckwheat]
#5937359 - 08/06/06 03:22 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Reuters photo "As soon as the allegation came to light, the photograph, filed on Saturday 5 August"
Your Yahoo link: "These two satellite images provided by GeoEye show the same area of Beirut, Lebanon before and after Israeli bombardment. The image on the left was taken Wednesday July 12, 2006, and the image on the right was taken Monday July 31,"
Relevance? Unless you are pointing out that your link provides what might well be a photoshop as well.
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Re: Qana Photographer Caught Doctoring Photos From Lebanon [Re: Catalysis]
#5937752 - 08/06/06 05:27 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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wow, photoshoped plumes of smoke. big deal. it's not like lebanon isnt being bombaded.
how about some real images? ok.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12011945@N00/sets/72157594202020048/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,,1820609,00.html





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Re: Qana Photographer Caught Doctoring Photos From Lebanon [Re: Catalysis]
#5937816 - 08/06/06 05:52 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Photographers have been doing this for years in war since Matthew Brady moved corpses in the Civil War to more photogenic poses.
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Re: Qana Photographer Caught Doctoring Photos From Lebanon [Re: Vvellum]
#5937910 - 08/06/06 06:24 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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bi0, where'd you get the pictures of those feirce hezbollah warriors? That one looks like shes three years old, and are those Katyusha's shes hiding under her burned, scarred body? Oh praise Judaism for dealing with those evil people that wanted to hurt the innocent nation of Israel.
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Re: Qana Photographer Caught Doctoring Photos From Lebanon [Re: xDuckYouSuckerx]
#5937969 - 08/06/06 06:48 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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You anti-semite!!
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Re: Qana Photographer Caught Doctoring Photos From Lebanon [Re: buckwheat]
#5938059 - 08/06/06 07:18 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Nope, no dead Joooooooooos. Not a one. They're just bottle rockets being constantly launched at apartment buildings in Haifa with tank installations on their roofs.
Edit for spelling error
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Re: Qana Photographer Caught Doctoring Photos From Lebanon [Re: zappaisgod]
#5938099 - 08/06/06 07:28 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Apparently Al Reuters thinks it's a big deal: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L06301298.htm
""This represents a serious breach of Reuters' standards and we shall not be accepting or using pictures taken by him," Whittle said in a statement issued in London."
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Re: Qana Photographer Caught Doctoring Photos From Lebanon [Re: Vvellum]
#5938127 - 08/06/06 07:37 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Also, if you recall this same photographer was called out for photos in Qana showing a girl being loaded into an ambulance and then another photo of her timestamped hours later with no ambulance around.
This is important because people like bi0 use the staged photos and exaggerated death counts to drum up support for hezbollah while jews are being killed every day without the corpse parade.
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Re: Qana Photographer Caught Doctoring Photos From Lebanon [Re: Catalysis]
#5938186 - 08/06/06 08:01 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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oh yea, most media doesn't even talk about what happens to the Jews
riiiiight
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Re: Qana Photographer Caught Doctoring Photos From Lebanon [Re: xDuckYouSuckerx]
#5938924 - 08/06/06 10:56 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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xDuckYouSuckerx said: oh yea, most media doesn't even talk about what happens to the Jews
riiiiight
US media talks about dead Israelis and Lebanese but never shows any pictures. And why the fuck do you care about the Lebanese?
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Re: Qana Photographer Caught Doctoring Photos From Lebanon [Re: Vvellum]
#5939937 - 08/07/06 06:05 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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> wow, photoshoped plumes of smoke. big deal.
Imagine the opposite... Israel releases faked photos that show the carnage of the rocket attacks upon the children in Israel... and in the next photo you see the children playing, unhurt, a few hours alter. I doubt you would be singing "big deal" in that case.
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Re: Qana Photographer Caught Doctoring Photos From Lebanon [Re: Seuss]
#5940091 - 08/07/06 08:24 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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At what point is anybody else gonna catch on to the fact that Helmut just hates Joooooos?
And it's way more than just photoshopped images of smoke http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/184206.php From the same photographer
And then there is the whole "Green Helmet" series of staged photos from Qana. The best summary of this can be found here: http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/ With a particularly interesting bit of speculation from here: http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/2250 that "Green Helmet" is a mortician who just maybe is trotting the same bodies from site to site in his refrigerated truck. Body count in Qana went mysteriously from 57 to 28 and, as per my previous link to a video showing rockets fired from residences in Qana, in conjunction with this quotation; "If a location is a legitimate military objective, it does not cease to be one because civilians are in the vicinity. As Article 28 of the 4th Geneva Convention provides:"
The presence of a protected person may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations.
Clearly, the deliberate placing of military targets in the heart of civilian areas is a serious violation of humanitarian law, and those who chose to locate such targets in these areas must bear responsibility for the injury to civilians which this decision engenders. As international law expert Yoram Dinstein notes:" from here: http://vitalperspective.typepad.com/vital_perspective_clarity/2006/07/responding_to_t.html There is a very legitimate contention that the finger of blame for any civilian deaths so far in Lebanon should be pointed squarely at Hez. Not to mention several thousand rockets fired by them that aren't even attempts at striking military targets. I repeat, several thousand.
Jooooooish controlled media? A total fucking joke. Even Spielberg in that Munich movie bent over backwards to excuse the murderous swine. There are some paranoic Nazis on the planet. Pay them no mind. They are stupid, envious people.
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Re: Qana Photographer Caught Doctoring Photos From Lebanon [Re: downforpot]
#5940138 - 08/07/06 08:50 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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downforpot said: US media talks about dead Israelis and Lebanese but never shows any pictures. And why the fuck do you care about the Lebanese?
I really don't care about them, per se, but I care about the Zionists less.
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Re: Qana Photographer Caught Doctoring Photos From Lebanon [Re: Seuss]
#5940139 - 08/07/06 08:52 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Seuss said: Imagine the opposite... Israel releases faked photos that show the carnage of the rocket attacks upon the children in Israel... and in the next photo you see the children playing, unhurt, a few hours alter. I doubt you would be singing "big deal" in that case.
Yea, I mean, after Israel attacked the USS Liberty, the open, unbias media reported it accurately. Er, no, ok bad example.
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Re: Qana Photographer Caught Doctoring Photos From Lebanon [Re: Seuss]
#5940379 - 08/07/06 10:43 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Seuss said: > wow, photoshoped plumes of smoke. big deal.
Imagine the opposite... Israel releases faked photos that show the carnage of the rocket attacks upon the children in Israel... and in the next photo you see the children playing, unhurt, a few hours alter. I doubt you would be singing "big deal" in that case.
in that case, you are correct. but if some Israel news agency photoshopped big plumes of smoke that were a result of a Hezbollah missile attack (which do happen just like Israeli bombarding Lebanese towns), I wouldnt care - no big deal. shady and unethical, but there are bigger fish to fry in this situation.
A photoshopped image is no worse than all of the biased news that promote both sides of this situation. I would say that the constant flow of inaccuracy and bogus news reporting is far worse than one bogus, obviously faked-, and incredibly obscure image.
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