So, so far, this has received fairly extensive coverage. CNN, MSNBC and Fox having been running the story about every 3 hours, the blogger at littlegreenfootballs has been all over the air, Reuters has pulled every photo by the guy pending review, they have already admitted to finding at least 2 other doctored photos (although cnn only showed one, a picture of an Israeli jet firing a flare, and he copied the flare two more times for a false total of 3), and the news stations and bloggers are talking about the photos he shot in Qana, how they look to be "staged", and whether this differs from direct photo manipulation in any meaningful way.
Now, I have to admit I am a little bit unclear as to the motives of this @ss-clown. A small piece of my mind says this is somehow politically motivated, but if so, he is an idiot. The pictures he digitally doctored are not any worse in their doctored version than the original was. The rest of my mind says he was doing this as a regular human being (read weak selfish jerk), and doctored and staged the stuff to get his photos bought, higher rates for the photos, purely greedy personal motives that could (and probably do) happen all the time. The political side I see is that Reuters appears to pay less editorial attention to stories against the US and Israel, and are willing to let more "propeganda" slide if it in the "against" column rather than the "for" column. Over the next few days, we will see if Reuters is serious, and if it fires the guy for good after the dust settles, or if they forgive him later, and reinstate him. For me, that will be the test of whether Reuters was complicate or just lazy and foolish. On 8/5/06, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been against the media when it comes to truth for a long time and I love > it when they prove me right. Look at this official reuters photo: > http://photos.reuters.com/news/newsPhotoPresentation.aspx?type=photoSearch&imageID=2006-08-05T193003Z_01_NOOTR_RTRIDSP_0_NEWS-MIDEAST-COL.XML > > Looks like Israel is just blowing away any part of Beirut that they want. > Look at these analysis of the photo and tell me again what's happening: > http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=21956_Reuters_Doctoring_Photos_from_Beirut&only > > As with many other analysis of the media's 'attention' to the middle east, > there's a real question of truth here, or lack of it. At least that's what it > looks like to me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:212758 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
