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ABC LESS SAVVY THAN LGF
Many hours after Little Green Footballs exposed a crudely doctored Reuters image of destruction in Beirut, Australia’s ABC runs the fake picture:
The image—click over to LGF for analysis of the fakery—is running despite Reuters issuing a retraction:
PICTURE KILL FOR LBN20 TRANSMITTED AT APPROXIMATELY 1408GMT ON AUGUST 5, 2006. PHOTO EDITING SOFTWARE WAS IMPROPERLY USED ON THIS IMAGE. A CORRECTED VERSION WILL IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW THIS ADVISORY. PLEASE REMOVE THE IMAGE FROM YOUR SYSTEMS. WE ARE SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE. REUTERS LBN20 Smoke billows from burning buildings destroyed during an overnight Israeli air raid on Beirut’s suburbs August 5, 2006. Many buildings were flattened during the attack. REUTERS/Adnan Hajj (LEBANON) REUTERS NEWS PICTURES
Maybe the ABC will replace it with this:
(Via Martin G. and Dr. Sam)
UPDATE. About nine hours after Reuters requested that the photoshopped image be removed, and following mention of the scam by hundreds of blogs, the ABC finally acts.
UPDATE II. Yet more trouble for Reuters. And more trouble still.
As CJ said, it isn’t stupidity so much as sheer cowardice and laziness.
I dunno. Cowardice and laziness leave out the extent to which the press agrees/sympathizes with the Islamists.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 08 06 at 10:30 AM • permalinkO/T Dropped by at SBS site.Anti uranium advertising, -“What is Hesbollah -a SO CALLED terrorist organization”, and “but in much of the Arab world Hesbollah is seen AS THE ONLY ORGANIZATION PREPARED TO STAND UP TO ISRAELI AGGRESSION.” and “Hesbollah came into existence following the ISRAELI INVASION of Lebanon in 1982 and the Iranian Revolution in 1979.”
Also the SBS Radio Arabic Language Programme’s Youth Power Competition with a $5000 prize courtesy of Arab Bank Australia.This is a true story, unlike the one discussed here ... my 15yo son told me this weekend he is considering journalism as a career ... he’s had to select his Yr 11 & 12 subjects in view of a career or going to Uni ... unfortunately he has no Photoshop skills ... I didn’t discourage him, but is he on a winner?
o/t In Teheran Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez calls on “Muslims and non Muslim revolutionaries to UNITE AND SAVE THE HUMAN RACE BY FINISHING THE U.S. EMPIRE..”
“Sunni theologians in Cairo have issued fatwas allowing Sunnis to fight alongside and under the control of She-ites.” Amir Tahen..The Times.It looked faked even to me, and now Shape of Days shas gone to town on the thing.
It’s like
wronwrightsomebody cranked up the dial to the you’ve-got-to-be-kidding setting on our Dark Lord Rove’s (dreaded be his name) Stupidity Ray and zorched Adnan Hajj. Then played it across the Reuters offices a couple times.You just can’t get no appreciation, man. Does Reuter’s thank LGF, et al for pointing out a little careless mistake Reuter’s made? Oh, Nooooo! They send out their Muslie hit men to erase the guy:
Reuters employee issues ‘Zionist pig’ death threat: ‘I look forward to day when you pigs get your throats cut’ he writes:
Documentation, details can be found on LGF, American Thinker, Michelle Malkin, et al, but , I bet, not in the MSM, even though Reuter’s has been quoted as verifying the story. Notice that Reuters has not reveled the name of the guy who faked the photos nor the name of the hit man. Wanna bet the names begin with Mohammed.stats, the threat is from May.
Perhaps, but the facts speak to a certain truth.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 08 06 at 01:44 PM • permalink#21 stats - the threat to LFG was made in the month of May of this year (not after he caught Al-Rooters out with their latest lie).
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2006 08 06 at 02:12 PM • permalinkWhy employ photogs when the MSM news wire services can create digital images from whole cloth. Reuters should take the next logical step into the fake but accurate world they are helping to create. Hire Peter Jackson and let him build a world full of Ingsog like wars and rumors of wars.
It’s obvious that a large segment of people are allowing themselves to be deceived. Faked up news and images help them preserve their own preconceived notions of what the world is like.
#27 2dogs—
It is well known that global warming causes smoke to form regular patterns.
Yes, and warming also causes the index of refraction of the atmosphere to change, thus elevating the apparent horizon (on the left edge of the photo) some two hundred meters or so above that on the right.
What can’t you do with a properly-detuned SUV?
Regards,
RicOutstanding. I was wondering if other members of the MSM would be fooled.
Nick spotted the fakein a second.
Yahoo has finally taken down the faked photo.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 08 06 at 05:01 PM • permalinkAnt is in the Australian AGAIN complaining about the “Jewish Lobby” shutting down his freedom of speech.
Ant,
No one with a published book can complain about their dissent being crushed.
What Ant’s main complaint is - “I don’t like them calling me stupid.”
Posted by Quentin George on 2006 08 06 at 05:10 PM • permalinkmanipulation
re the hizbollah propaganda war and its willing MSM participants - from The Australia p9 today:
The Bekaa raid (by IDF), an apparent attempt to free an Israeli prisoner or seize a Hezbollah official, was the first to use cameras for public relations purposes. The raid on Tyre was the second.The need for such authentication was demonstrated in the aftermath of the Tyre raid, when a BBC journalist stationed there reported as fact what Hezbollah had told him—that the raiders had landed by helicopter “and walked right into a Hezbollah ambush”.
A few hours later, Israel released videos showing the raiders, a naval commando unit, stealthily approaching the apartment building that was their target and surrounding it before dawn.
and another from lgf, post 851:
The Media Aims Its Missles, by Tom Gross
CNN “senior international correspondent” Nic Robertson admitted that his anti-Israel report from Beirut on July 18 about civilian casualties in Lebanon, was stage-managed from start to finish by Hizbullah. He revealed that his story was heavily influenced by Hizbullah’s “press officer” and that Hizbullah has “very, very sophisticated and slick media operations.”When pressed a few days later about his reporting on the CNN program “Reliable Sources,” Robertson acknowledged that Hizbullah militants had instructed the CNN camera team where and what to film. Hizbullah “had control of the situation,” Robertson said. “They designated the places that we went to, and we certainly didn’t have time to go into the houses or lift up the rubble to see what was underneath.”
Another journalist let the cat out of the bag last week. Writing on his blog while reporting from southern Lebanon, Time magazine contributor Christopher Allbritton, casually mentioned in the middle of a posting: “To the south, along the curve of the coast, Hizbullah is launching Katyushas, but I’m loathe to say too much about them. The Party of God has a copy of every journalist’s passport, and they’ve already hassled a number of us and threatened one.”
#33 twd: The ABC has now issued a retraction, for I think the first time in history!
The fallout for the veracity of the Qana photgraphs will be extensive….
While talking about the dissembling MSM, here’s a comment from Captain’s Quarters:
From Captain’s Quarters
Here’s one that involves both diplomats and the media:A Hezbollah rocket blast also injured three Chinese peacekeepers on Sunday, the Chinese state media reported, citing a Chinese officer. The report not specify where the attack occurred or whether the peacekeepers had been hospitalized.
The attack came hours after China’s Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing told U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in a telephone conversation that the world body should take tangible measures to ensure the security of U.N. peacekeepers, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.When Israel hit a UNIFIL/UNTSO post a couple of weeks ago, Kofi Annan went on worldwide television to express his anger at the “deliberate targeting” of UN personnel by the IDF. He demanded access to the area for an independent UN investigation. Only when Canada, whose soldier was among the four dead, insisted that Israel had not deliberately targeted the UN position but a Hezbollah launching site that the UN had allowed them to build nearby did Annan finally shut up. Now Hezbollah has attacked and injured a UNIFIL contingent—and where is Kofi Annan’s outrage? Where is the worldwide media coverage? Where is the global diplomatic condemnation?
Oh, wait a minute—Hezbollah aren’t Jooooooooooos. I forgot.#26- that photo looks like a 16-hole cherry red Doc Marten; I’ve not seen a lot of skinheads in the Levant, despite their mutual admiration for a discredited political system somewhat in vogue in western Europe in the 1930s and 40s.
What Ant’s main complaint is - “I don’t like them calling me stupid.”
Don’t want to be called “stupid? Don’t talk stupid!
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 08 06 at 08:44 PM • permalinkThe MSM is not on our side. They haven’t been since WWII, and they weren’t too keen on that one either in the beginning - what with Stalin’s pact with Hitler. They never backed the West if the Communists were involved. Wonder why Pilger et al didn’t seem to mind the Serbs slaughtering Moslem civilians by the thousand? Slobbo was a “former” communist. Most of the MSM wants our side to lose, especially the ABC, SBS and Fairfax. The whole “balanced” journalism argument doesn’t play. Whatever our side does is a disgraceful war crime crying out to heaven for vengeance while the other side can behead hostages and send suicide bombers into cafes and all you’ll hear is, “It’s just an understandable sign of their desperation”. Missiles fired exclusively at civilian targets? that’s just plucky freedom fighters and their homemade rockets defying the might of the Israeli juggernaut. The MSM is not a bit balanced. There’s no point worrying about how it plays in the press anymore. Screw them.Go in hard.
Don’t forget the link to the Media Watch coverage of Lane and Reuters, Tim, for us foreigners. I’m sure it’ll be topnotch and include the other faked Reuters photos from the same source that are now also being discovered.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 08 06 at 09:45 PM • permalinkSlublog has uncovered an earlier, sadly rejected, version of the “Beirut is Burning!” photo.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 08 06 at 09:50 PM • permalinkAt what point does western society demand retribution from the MSM? I mean, they are clearly with the enemy. Is it not time that we just start eliminating their ability to function in our societies. I mean, they will tell you they are not Australian or AMerican, that they are beyond all that. OK - so take all their toys away that we keep safely for them and let them go to their muslim masters. All I can say is if the islamofascists hit us again - we need to eliminate the MSM and put people in charge who are interested in living.
Smoke Gets in Your Lies
By Adnan HajjThey, asked me how I knew,
The photos they were true,
I of course replied, stringers here inside,
Cannot be denied.They said some mainstream media find,
All who read are blind,
When a war’s afire, you must realize,
Smoke gets in your lies.So I staged them, and daily papers laughed,
To think they’d doubt photographs,
And yet today, my lede has gone away,
I am without my lede.Now laughing blogs deride,
Reuters cannot hide,
So I smile and say, when a lovely flame dies,
Smoke gets in your lies,Smoke gets in your lies.
P.S. And more staging:
http://tinyurl.com/ga7yrPosted by andycanuck on 2006 08 06 at 10:36 PM • permalinkThe second picture looked fine to me until after hours of staring at it I realized that the dripping fangs, the side curls and the swastikas were missing.
Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 08 06 at 10:40 PM • permalinkandycanuck, nice work!
But that is so blatantly not Godzilla in that photo. It’s Maureen Dowd, still out manhunting.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 08 06 at 10:43 PM • permalinkFolks, folks…
Journalists are people not eeevil plotting cockroaches. Not all the stupidity is deliberate bias.Note the symptoms you point out include the natural limitations of access, the ‘whoever talks to us gets their story heard’, the issues of relying on other people, the issues of wishing to have your biases confirmed, and having to deliver excitement on deadline.
And note now that ‘our side, the non-MSM’ has its own blowback - it appears the ‘good news from Afghanistan’ kind of article is now being used by the Taliban to determine targeting, and Michael Totten and others of our heroes have their lives out there too.
The problems of news integrity are critical to success in the war on terror.
What can we, fellow readers, do that is actually contructive?
Ok the pictures been changed but the caption still reads:
“Smoke rises from burning buildings after an Israeli air strike on the suburbs of Beirut.”
New caption should read:
” Light, wispy smoke from smoldering buildings replaced heavy, ominous smoke after bombs and damage were recalled from an Israeli air strike on the suburbs of Beirut.”
“Journalists are people not eeevil plotting cockroaches.”
Yeah, right.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 08 06 at 11:16 PM • permalinkFlotilla 13 makes port call in Tyre…
...and the usual festivities ensued. A visit was paid to some nice Hizballah boys in a flat on the second floor of an apartment building, evidently connected to the firing of missile or missiles at Hadera.
They’re dead.
Funny thing about Tyre - when people die they are magically transformed into “civilians”, but prior to death they are heavily armed, and a group of such “civilians” was waiting outside the apartment building for the exiting commandos.
Ten more dead.
Meanwhile, Lebanese soldiers opened fire on Israeli helicopters that were supporting the operation. That was a mistake. Yep.
They’re dead too.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 08 06 at 11:39 PM • permalinkThe Age has run the story without, of course, giving the blogosphere any credit for breaking it.
Posted by Susan Norton on 2006 08 07 at 04:15 AM • permalinkMaybe they’ll give it to Terry Macbeth Lane next Sunday, Susan.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 08 07 at 04:56 AM • permalinkLet us keep on digging for more left wing media laziness and lies http://www.iris.org.il/blog/archives/1691-Evidence-Mounts-that-Kana-Massacre-Was-a-Fake.html
It’s common policy that whenever a journalist has been found to have fabricated a news article or column for the newspaper or magazine to review all articles by that journalist to determine whether any other articles were fabricated. Jayson Blair is but one example.
Reuters needs to review all photos produced by the photographer. Probably they should also review all photographs published about the Middle East for the past few years regardless of the source. Until they do, they will be presumed to have published fake photos.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 08 07 at 05:34 AM • permalinkThe Israelis are not just damaged by the use by the Hizbollah, (through the good graces of the MSM), of these photos. And lets not forget the propganda of journalist’such as Fisk, who counted the 34 bodies of children killed at Qana, and described in graphic detail the state of the bodies. Shame that 28 individuals only died. He has not been called on this complete fabrication for propaganda purposes.
For the Israelis however, their existence is threatened by the extent and success of this strategy.
Unrestricted Warfare, Wiki
and
Lawfare wikiNot just the fellow travellers of Hizbollah, but the NGOs (and the Europeans but that would be taken as a given) are party to this reinforcement of Iran’s and Hizbollah’s “Unrestricted Warfare” Like cluster bombs versus ball bearings in HRW propaganda. For HWR to stop the Israelis from using these weapons to save their people, and yet with no doubt that Hizbollah will continue to ignore any international law restrictions, cannot just be excused as caring for the civilian. To know and still kneecap the Israelis like this, is to be an active component in the strategy of International Law Warfare. And that Annan is outraged by the accidental strike against UN peacekeepers by the Israelis, but seemingly doesn’t raise a sweat about Hizbollah hitting Chinese UN peacekeepers, says that, stupid though he is, he too is a willing tool in this form of attack on Israel.
The democratic nations have to come to terms with this deliberate and powerful war strategy now, the Geneva Convention is our invention, and it is being used to hurt us. Or fight something really terrible in the future.
Hey guess what!
Mediawatch didn’t mention Macbeth Lane even once!
I am shocked. Shocked I tell you.
Nor anything about the Reuters smokey phake foto affair. Or the ABC role in it. Not a word. I kid you not.
There was something about Arabs raping mares though. Or maybe it was mayors. And she did have a fair bit to say about the Behind The News fiasco. The gist of it was the ABC should not have admitted bias because bias is in the eyes of the beholders because Keysa Trad says a lot of stuff about the same thing that is different to what Vic Aldahoff says so it’s all controversial and it’s not our fault so there ...
Spare me days ...
#54 Cockroach is as cockroach does Chrisper.
Here’s unbiasdness from ABC correspondent Peter Heart-acher tonight..
First he talks about Hisbollah rockets hittin Israel and causing deaths and destruction -no comment from him.
Then “The Israelis are thinking of widening their battle front -PUTTING IN JEOPARDY the CEASEFIRE.” and “Hesbollah want an ISRAELI withdrawal -its a sticking point and one which might PROLONG THE CONFLICT.”Accuracy in the media? You’re all giving journalism a lot more credit than they deserve. MSM gets fed information via press release or wire service. Their only job is to spin it, condense it and dumb it down.
Those brave reporters, including wire services, in the middle east mostly get stringers to do the dirty work.
Although it’s not original to me, I’ve found it to be true: Nothing I’ve ever seen in the media, that I am reasonably familar with, has ever been complete or accurate.Although it’s not original to me, I’ve found it to be true: Nothing I’ve ever seen in the media, that I am reasonably familar with, has ever been complete or accurate.
That’s an observation that’s been made for decades, but it leads me to this: today, the reporting is so bad, we can see the flaws in reports from the other side of the planet. They can’t even be trying, can they?
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 08 07 at 12:17 PM • permalinkWe need a knickname for “the green helmeted guy”
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060806/481/4d58f2befba34c9588d7075d2f25d5c0
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3283816,00.html
“Beirut Billy?”
In related news, the Lebanese Prime Minister makes a slight rounding error.
Reuters needs to review all photos produced by the photographer. Probably they should also review all photographs published about the Middle East for the past few years regardless of the source. Until they do, they will be presumed to have published fake photos.
From Reuters:
Reuters withdrew all 920 photographs by a freelance Lebanese photographer from its database on Monday after an urgent review of his work showed he had altered two images from the conflict between Israel and the armed group Hizbollah.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 08 07 at 02:24 PM • permalink#82, You think that reveals media bias against Israel. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. The following exchange between Howard Kurtz and Washington Post reporter Tom Ricks, on yesterday’s “Reliable Sources” leaves Powerlineblog.com speechless:
“Tom Ricks, you’ve covered a number of military conflicts, including Iraq, as I just mentioned. Is civilian casualties increasingly going to be a major media issue? In conflicts where you don’t have two standing armies shooting at each other?”
THOMAS RICKS, REPORTER, “THE WASHINGTON POST”: I think it will be. But I think civilian casualties are also part of the battlefield play for both sides here. One of the things that is going on, according to some military analysts, is that
Israel purposely has left pockets of Hezbollah rockets in Lebanon, because as long as they’re being rocketed, they can continue to have a sort of moral equivalency in their operations in Lebanon.KURTZ: Hold on, you’re suggesting that Israel has deliberately allowed Hezbollah to retain some of it’s fire power, essentially for PR purposes, because having Israeli civilians killed helps them in the public relations war here?
RICKS: Yes, that’s what military analysts have told me.
KURTZ: That’s an extraordinary testament to the notion that having people on your own side killed actually works to your benefit in that nobody wants to see your own citizens killed but it works to your benefit in terms of the battle of perceptions here.
RICKS: Exactly. It helps you with the moral high ground problem, because you know your operations in Lebanon are going to be killing civilians as well.”So, according to the theory put forth by the Washington Post, we now know the real reason for the Israeli commando raids into Tyre. They went there to install more rocket launchers for Scumballah. This according to some unnamed military analysts contacted by the Washington Post. Beats doctored photos.
The photoshop (clone) task is obvious in the picture. I’m surprised they didn’t use additional layering/soft filtering with an added USA/Jewish Devil picture placed into the clouds. Followed by the flatten image key.
(like in 911_).
p.s. I like your version, however you forgot to put Humphrey Hezzbollah bear in the picture.
Also the daily tel/syd… the photo used in court for riot thugs claims not him? hmmm 10 mins after?
Maybe the image was taken the day prior to the riots. Was the photograph manipulated? What lens was used? etc etc… Can you clearly identify the time?
South African Muslim batsman Hashim Amla as a “terrorist”.
Well, they can’t ball either only blow up things.
Hugh Hewitt interviewed Tom Hicks today:
Mr. Ricks tells me that “I wish I’d kept my mouth shut,” and says he has been hearing from people today that Israel did not leave “rocket pockets,” that Israeli citizens “wouldn’t stand for it,” and that today’s sources believed that repeating the charge had been irresponsible on his part. Ricks stood by his sources for the explosive charge telling me that the analysts he quoted yesterday “are very good smart, retired U.S. military officers,” but that “[f]rom now on I’m going to stick to Iraq.”
Hicks said some of the analyists he spoke to after the Kurtz thing told him that he was being irresponsible. He seemed appropriately chastened. Interesting interview. The transcript will be up later.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 08 07 at 08:14 PM • permalinkAustralian taxpayers should demand a refund. The ABC purchased obviously doctored photographs from Reuters. The only question now is how much money it’s spent on this guy’s bullshit (a fact, given that Reuters has pulled all of Adnan Hajj’s pics from its database and they are no longer for sale). Mediawatch has gone AWOL on ethics, the ABC has jettisoned any pretence that it provides balanced coverage, and idiots like Terry Macbeth Lane get a free ride to tell lies, lies and more lies.
And people say the mainland Chinese press is worthless! At least I read articles in mainland newspapers by individuals with the courage to tell the truth (and who do so at sometimes great personal cost). In Australia, it seems that even when journalists tell lies, they don’t suffer any personal cost. What a joke.
#87 Kyda, I don’t get it. He says today’s sources believed that repeating the charge had been irresponsible on his part. So his own “today’s” sources tell him it was irresposible for him to repeat the charge? It seems to me they’re telling him he’s a scumbag bigoted liar, much like Terry Macbeth Lane. And what about yesterday’s sources? Did they provide any evidence? They are retired military officers? Sounds like he has gotten his information from Murtha, a retired Marine officer who now leads the crazies among the congressmen, who knows Shite about Israel and wants to station USA soldiers in Okninowa to be ready for mideast action. And what of the Washingtom Post, who feeds this snake? Beats doctoring photos, doesn’t it?
#88 Hanyu - I agree. I’m an Australian living in Guangzhou and read every edition of the China Daily. Who would ever believe it could be refreshing to read mainstream chinese print media.
Constant reader, infrequent poster, like-minded in all respects. I’m sure there are many more decent folk that this decription would fit.
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Pretty soon Leunig will be coming up with one of his “famous” whimsical duck cartoons portraying the Hezbollah as cute little duckies being eaten alive by the big nose Jewish orge. Our western media seems to be consumed somewhat by antisemitic outrage. Seems a good sign that there is a real power of evil out there.