More proof that the media is anti-Israeli......

[Real American]

For you guy's information, Reuters and Associated Press are the two biggest news agencies in the world. They provide the news articles and photographs that you see in your newspaper. Anyway, one of Reuters photographers was doctoring photos to exaggerate the damage in Lebanon. Luckily he was caught by a conservative blogger.

Question everything!!!!!!!


http://reuters.myway.com/article/20060807/2006-08-07T162044Z_01_L06301298_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-MIDEAST-REUTERS-DC.html


Reuters withdraws all photos by freelancer
 
 
LONDON (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.

Global Picture Editor Tom Szlukovenyi called the measure precautionary but said the fact that two of the images by photographer Adnan Hajj had been manipulated undermined trust in his entire body of work.

"There is no graver breach of Reuters standards for our photographers than the deliberate manipulation of an image," Szlukovenyi said in a statement.

"Reuters has zero tolerance for any doctoring of pictures and constantly reminds its photographers, both staff and freelance, of this strict and unalterable policy."

The news and information agency announced the decision in an advisory note to its photo service subscribers. The note also said Reuters had tightened editing procedures for photographs from the conflict and apologized for the case.

Removing the images from the Reuters database excludes them from future sale.

Reuters ended its relationship with Hajj on Sunday after it found that a photograph he had taken of the aftermath of an Israeli air strike on suburban Beirut had been manipulated using Photoshop software to show more and darker smoke rising from buildings.

An immediate enquiry began into Hajj's other work.

It established on Monday that a photograph of an Israeli F-16 fighter over Nabatiyeh, southern Lebanon and dated Aug 2, had also been doctored to increase the number of flares dropped by the plane from one to three.

"Manipulating photographs in this way is entirely unacceptable and contrary to all the principles consistently held by Reuters throughout its long and distinguished history. It undermines not only our reputation but also the good name of all our photographers," Szlukovenyi said.

"This doesn't mean that every one of his 920 photographs in our database was altered. We know that not to be the case from the majority of images we have looked at so far but we need to act swiftly and in a precautionary manner."

The two altered photographs were among 43 that Hajj filed directly to the Reuters Global Pictures Desk since the start of the conflict on July 12 rather than through an editor in Beirut, as was the case with the great majority of his images.

Filing drills have been tightened in Lebanon and only senior staff will now edit pictures from the Middle East on the Global Pictures Desk, with the final check undertaken by the Editor-in-Charge, Reuters said.

Hajj worked for Reuters as a non-staff contributing photographer from 1993 until 2003 and again since April 2005. Most of his work was in sports photography, much of it outside Lebanon.

Hajj was not in Beirut on Monday and was not responding to calls. He told Reuters on Sunday that the image of the Israeli air strike on Beirut had dust marks which he had wanted to remove.

Questions about the accuracy of the photograph arose after it appeared on news Web sites on Saturday.

Several blogs, including a number which accuse the media of distorted coverage of the Middle East conflict, said the photograph had been doctored.

[Real American]

Here is another example of the media's lies.

Read this.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-08-07T130719Z_01_L05688729_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

And now read this.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/07/D8JBLITG0.html




Man they got you sheep brainwashed.

[Narrator]

You're trying too hard again.

[LooN3y]

who cares about the media its all bull shit, media is the devils work. its pretty much all anti-christ. i never heard the discovery of the pharoah's chariots in the red sea in any news network show.(when egyptians chase moses and the jews across the sea and moses splits it)

[virtuoso]

Ok listen up shit for brains, why i even give you the time of day only knows but let me put this into context for you, israel is deliberatley destroying the roads, the outcome the aid agencies are finding it almost impossible to get aid through now, the knock on effect of which is the starvation of hundreds of thousands of human beings. Israel is playing a game of smoke and mirrors they say they are not deliberaely targeting civilian vehicles and yet only today did a spokesman for the government say that those who are travelling on the open roads were a legitimate target. Israel has killed over a thousand lebanese people now most of them civilians, and many of these have been children. Israel has displaced what is reported to be almost a million people now, that is another way of saying it has made over a million lebanese refugees. Still one million shy of the number of palestinians it intends to keep as refugees without a right of return forever but not bad going for only a few weeks effort.

This is important you grasp this Israel has also said that the "buffer zone" will extend to the litani river now let me break this down for you thats 40 miles from the border, that is what you might calling stealing a sovereign nations land!. Israel's water supplies are running dry and they just happen to intend to make the litani river the buffer zone, geez thats a coincidence!. There is nothing moralistic about this, now i also want you to comprehend this hezbollah and israel have fought skirmishes for a long time, indeed IDF soldiers and lebanese have regularly been kidnapped and an exchange takes place. So this time its "different" when the river jordan is reportedly only 2 years away from drying up, hmm just another coincidence then!.

Finally specifically about the reporting in case it had escaped your warped attention the IDF is doing most of the killing most of the destruction so of course the media is going to have more to report about on IDF actions. However I want to get this point through your head far from being anti israel, they speak to the israeli victims family, usually the name is given also, personalising each and every death with the lebanese victims its usually just a figure. There is no emotional attachment to a figure, focusing in on the individual plight is much more heart rendering to the viewer than simply a figure. Most of the interviews are still with Israelis also and despite all of this you come on hear with a sanctimonious line about how the media and those that condemn these crimes are anti Israel LOL.

[Javier]

Wasn't it only a few fucking minutes ago where the media was controlled by liberal jews?!

[LooN3y]

Wasn't it only a few fucking minutes ago where the media was controlled by liberal jews?!

words of an ignorant man who will never get the bigger picture

[Spicemuthafuc*in1]

You're trying too hard again.

yup dude needs to give it a rest

[Real American]

Ok listen up shit for brains, why i even give you the time of day only knows but let me put this into context for you, israel is deliberatley destroying the roads, the outcome the aid agencies are finding it almost impossible to get aid through now, the knock on effect of which is the starvation of hundreds of thousands of human beings. Israel is playing a game of smoke and mirrors they say they are not deliberaely targeting civilian vehicles and yet only today did a spokesman for the government say that those who are travelling on the open roads were a legitimate target. Israel has killed over a thousand lebanese people now most of them civilians, and many of these have been children. Israel has displaced what is reported to be almost a million people now, that is another way of saying it has made over a million lebanese refugees. Still one million shy of the number of palestinians it intends to keep as refugees without a right of return forever but not bad going for only a few weeks effort.

This is important you grasp this Israel has also said that the "buffer zone" will extend to the litani river now let me break this down for you thats 40 miles from the border, that is what you might calling stealing a sovereign nations land!. Israel's water supplies are running dry and they just happen to intend to make the litani river the buffer zone, geez thats a coincidence!. There is nothing moralistic about this, now i also want you to comprehend this hezbollah and israel have fought skirmishes for a long time, indeed IDF soldiers and lebanese have regularly been kidnapped and an exchange takes place. So this time its "different" when the river jordan is reportedly only 2 years away from drying up, hmm just another coincidence then!.

Finally specifically about the reporting in case it had escaped your warped attention the IDF is doing most of the killing most of the destruction so of course the media is going to have more to report about on IDF actions. However I want to get this point through your head far from being anti israel, they speak to the israeli victims family, usually the name is given also, personalising each and every death with the lebanese victims its usually just a figure. There is no emotional attachment to a figure, focusing in on the individual plight is much more heart rendering to the viewer than simply a figure. Most of the interviews are still with Israelis also and despite all of this you come on hear with a sanctimonious line about how the media and those that condemn these crimes are anti Israel LOL.

That is nice. So why do you think that the media is doctoring photos to exaggerate the damage that is occuring in Lebnanon? And why do you think the Lebanese government is exaggerating the number of civilain deaths?

[Real American]

You're trying too hard again.

yup dude needs to give it a rest

I don't have to try, the articles speak for themselves.

[virtuoso]

Having typed the latter in on google and finding nothing it seems that link about the prime minister only saying there was 1 death is complete bullshit, this may come as a revelation to you but last year the u.s government was found guilty of using fake newscasts many many times, show me another link.

[Real American]

You're an idiot.

[LooN3y]

Ok listen up shit for brains, why i even give you the time of day only knows but let me put this into context for you, israel is deliberatley destroying the roads, the outcome the aid agencies are finding it almost impossible to get aid through now, the knock on effect of which is the starvation of hundreds of thousands of human beings. Israel is playing a game of smoke and mirrors they say they are not deliberaely targeting civilian vehicles and yet only today did a spokesman for the government say that those who are travelling on the open roads were a legitimate target. Israel has killed over a thousand lebanese people now most of them civilians, and many of these have been children. Israel has displaced what is reported to be almost a million people now, that is another way of saying it has made over a million lebanese refugees. Still one million shy of the number of palestinians it intends to keep as refugees without a right of return forever but not bad going for only a few weeks effort.

This is important you grasp this Israel has also said that the "buffer zone" will extend to the litani river now let me break this down for you thats 40 miles from the border, that is what you might calling stealing a sovereign nations land!. Israel's water supplies are running dry and they just happen to intend to make the litani river the buffer zone, geez thats a coincidence!. There is nothing moralistic about this, now i also want you to comprehend this hezbollah and israel have fought skirmishes for a long time, indeed IDF soldiers and lebanese have regularly been kidnapped and an exchange takes place. So this time its "different" when the river jordan is reportedly only 2 years away from drying up, hmm just another coincidence then!.

Finally specifically about the reporting in case it had escaped your warped attention the IDF is doing most of the killing most of the destruction so of course the media is going to have more to report about on IDF actions. However I want to get this point through your head far from being anti israel, they speak to the israeli victims family, usually the name is given also, personalising each and every death with the lebanese victims its usually just a figure. There is no emotional attachment to a figure, focusing in on the individual plight is much more heart rendering to the viewer than simply a figure. Most of the interviews are still with Israelis also and despite all of this you come on hear with a sanctimonious line about how the media and those that condemn these crimes are anti Israel LOL.

That is nice. So why do you think that the media is doctoring photos to exaggerate the damage that is occuring in Lebnanon? And why do you think the Lebanese government is exaggerating the number of civilain deaths?

because it shoes the deaths of innocents n makes other nations try to help or stop or intervine wit soldiers which leads to world war.

the media doctoring photos is another way to increase tensions and and they exaggerate but wut will that lead to? hhahahaha ww3 is on the way

[LooN3y]

do u guys agree?

[virtuoso]

You never even denied what I said you replied with "thats nice" so stealing peoples land and deliberately massacring them is nice is it 

As for the comment about world war 3, its been said for the last 5 years that Bush and Blair were intent on armageddon, if these psychos push Syria and Iran yes we are on the brink of world war 3. I just hope that someone suddenly pulls the plug on this crazy of idea of destroying the middle east.