Hezbollawood
At least one Reuters photographer, Adnan Hajj, has been taken red handed photoshopping his images for effect. Though he himself says it was really just because he had some lousy light conditions and I’m really Marilyn Monroe. Reuters withdraws all photos by freelancer. Of course it says a ton about Reuter negligence and incompetence, that a bunch of unprofessional bloggers in their spare time, have been able to run circles around this gigantic media cooperation. But perhaps its merely a predictable result of Reuters having outsourced much of their quality control to low-paid young workers in Bangladore? Neither it is the first time big media has used obvious false and misleading photos: Tuvia Grossman
Also there has been talk about a number of other incidents having been staged by Hezbollah. Like the Israeli attack on Qana, which has a number of suspicion looking repeat actors – and at least one Lebanese newspaper says were deliberately orchestrated by Hezbollah from start to end.
What about this series? Curiously undamaged but remarkable cute stuffed animals in strategic places
- Mickey Mouse - Ben Curtis, AP
- Minie Mouse - Sharif Karim, Reuters
- Stuffed animal - Sharif Karim, Reuters
- Stuffed animal - Sharif Karim, Reuters
- Issam Kobeisi, Reuters
- and more stuffed animals - Mohamed Azakir, Reuters
I’ve seen some more like them floating around. You could believe in one perhaps, even two or three. But is there actually anyone who believes such a torrent of stuffed animals are not placed by the photographers there for emotional response.
BBC news has women lose property…and again
(have to copy paste urls)
- A woman wails after having her Beirut apartment destroyed by Israeli bombs on July 22: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4399/1929/1600/beirutwoman1.jpg
- And now again her Beirut house as well – August 5: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4399/1929/1600/beirutwoman2.jpg
One heck of an unlucky woman.
** Lazarus?**
It’s not like it’s the first time this has been attempted. Pallywood did something like this in the “Jenin Genocide” that turned out to not be.
I’m sure there’s plenty more examples of manipulated photos and suspect setups.
Thank Bob for bloggers doing the quality work that Reuters itself should have done, though I’m sure they hate their guts for it. Personally I see it as a victory for the little man and for democracy. Power to the people. What the Internet does best.
Is Hezbollah waging a successful media war and why are western media institutions buying into it?