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Reuters Admits, Pulls Doctored Photos

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fill-in-gimp-plug-here dept.

fragmentate points to a post on PopPhoto which says "Reuters pulled a photograph of burning buildings in Beirut yesterday after a post on the Little Green Footballs blog outed it as digitally manipulated. The photo, filed on Saturday by freelance photographer Adnan Hajj, ran with the caption "Smoke billows from burning buildings destroyed during an overnight Israeli air raid on Beirut's suburbs." Fragmentate adds "Another image from the same photographer was found to have been doctored. Whether you're a CNN fan, or a FoxNEWS fan, you have to wonder how much of what we see is fake, or exaggerated."

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  1. Well then it's proven: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Beruit is not being bombed!

  2. The ultimate answer is... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If it's posted on Slashdot, then it must be true. :P

  3. Oblig. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Smoke billows from burning buildings destroyed during an overnight Israeli air raid on Beirut's suburbs."

    Not unlike the smoke that now billows from the LGF webserver...

  4. I for one... by liangzai · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... welcome our new al-Reuters image manipulating overlords!

  5. Playboy! by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Whether you're a CNN fan, or a FoxNEWS fan, you have to wonder how much of what we see is fake, or exaggerated.

    I'm a Playboy fan, because nothing in that magazine is fake or exaggerated.

  6. Re:OT: Canadians? by Megane · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was done so badly that I could tell it was clone tooled by looking at the thumbnail of the picture.

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  7. Re:Define "exaggerated." by QuantumInterference · · Score: 1, Funny

    Damn! Now I know what I have been doing wrong.

    When I took a photo of a single bunny behind my house, the picture showed 1,072 bunnies!!

    When I took a photo of a single cherry tree in a prairie field, a forest appeared.

    Can someone please tell me how to adjust my Al Reuter's setting to more closely mirror reality? It seems my current digital "film" development settings are a bit liberal.

  8. Re:Sorry, spin again by Keebler71 · · Score: 2, Funny

    * -- Joke

    O -- your head
    /T\
    /\

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