No, Reuters admitted their mistake for this and only this photo and have rejected calls for further investigation into his other photos (some of which are coming up manipulated and others are clearly staged). Remember that this is their policy: "Our policy is to send news to our customers only after scrutiny by a group of production editors who ensure quality standards are maintained across all our news services. When we get something wrong, our policy is to be honest about errors and to correct them promptly and clearly." So while they claim no guilt on their part, their own policy damns them.
As for media unfair and Limbaugh (who I don't listen to), he's a commentator and should be held to the same level of quality that we assume from the media (which we rarely get). If he manipulates a statement, then he's guilty. Is he more guilty than someone who stages dead body photos with Hezbollah? Is he more guilty than a news agency that uses only a single, highly biased source to say that "Lebanon rejects the UN ceasefire plan"? I really fail to see how a commentator like Limbaugh is 'the worse' when he has a local reach and is really small scale in comparison to what's really being manipulated out there. >> Dino wrote: >> I've been against the media when it comes to truth > > So, Reuters admits it's mistake and has suspended the photographer. > Obviously they need a better type of review before release, but I > don't think you can throw out the baby with the bath water. > > Your knock on "the media" is unfair. Limbaugh, for example, is > caught staging things almost every day. Just last week he was caught > taking a Senators remarks out of context and the railing against them. > > My point is, if "the media" needs to be punished then the worst > offenders should be punished first - that would include 99.9% of the > openly political commentators. Normally I'd say that commentary is > different from news but that's no longer true. People use programs > like Limbaugh's for news. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:212700 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
