Blogosphere Ablaze With Reuters Fakery
August 6th, 2006 at 9:56 pm by CrankyDidja know, that a Reuters stringer photog has been “enhancing” pictures of Lebanon bombings?
I know you really don’t need another blog telling you about what others are covering so thoroughly. Especially since they’ve been doing such a good job at it.
So in case you’ve somehow stumbled on this blog before catching wind of this debacle, here are the hottest sites covering it with the best analyses:
Remember, we may not have the scoop on altered photos, but we are the undisputed kings of Toad Blogging.
UPDATE:
Chalk it up to latent misogyny, but I somehow missed these links as well.
August 7th, 2006 at 4:32 am
Of course there’s one minor league blogger who has the scoop on the original photo, which explains why the photographer was compelled to photoshop it.
http://annika.mu.nu/archives/189528.html
August 7th, 2006 at 2:32 pm
REUTERS…..Circling the Wagons…
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August 7th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
al-Reuters and you…
The terrorist news organ al-Reuters is in trouble for badly photoshopping its ‘photographs’ to look more impressive, menacing, or full of Jewly evil. Of course, al-Reuters simply explains it away……
August 8th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
And the Dissident Frogman has an instructional video for the many fact-checking layers of journalistic integrity at Reuters to help them grasp the Photoshop clone tool.