Tuesday, August 08, 2006
DISPROPORTIONATE FAKE
Mark Steyn on the Reuters retouching wrangle:
Here’s a question for western news organizations: If Israel is so obviously such a disproportionate bloodthirsty murderous savage beast, why is it necessary to fake the evidence?
Meanwhile, Hezbollah is accused of plagiarism.
UPDATE. The latest on Reuters photoshopper Adnan Hajj:
Reuters yesterday withdrew all 920 photographs taken by one of its freelance photographers after acknowledging that he had doctored images of the war in Lebanon. On Sunday, Reuters said Adnan Hajj manipulated a photograph of damage to Beirut after an Israeli attack, but the agency discovered yesterday that Mr. Hajj also doctored a photograph of an Israeli F-16 fighter, prompting the removal of all 920 photos from the Reuters database.
In fact, Reuters didn’t discover Hajj’s second doctored image; Rusty Shackleford did.