Photoshop of Horrors Confirmed

August 6, 2006 15:19 by

Reuters confirmed that “photo editing software was improperly used on this image by Adnan Hajj.

Reuterskill

YNet News quoted a Reuters spokesman that the photographer has suspended the photographer pending an investigation. We have to wonder about Hajj’s Qana photos too.

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  1. nobody

    8:51 pm

    Aug 06, 2006

    Quoting from israellycool.com blog:
    5:53PM: ABC Australia are running with the doctored photo, despite Reuters “killing” it hours ago. Israellycool reader Martin says “there is a solid case here to challenge the ABC for embarrassingly poor due diligence at the very least, for two reasons:
    1.The photo was posted on the ABC News Online website some 10 hours after it was revealed on the Little Green Footballs website that the photo was doctored, and
    2. Over 100 websites had explicitly referenced this Little Green Footballs article before the ABC posted its article (using Technorati’s search).”
    URL to the story: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1707528.htm

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  2. Living Journey

    4:59 am

    Aug 07, 2006

    Keen Blogging eyes see Beiruts Billowing Smoke.Twice!

    See something strange in the photo. Have a look at the plume of smoke and see if you can recognise a similar pattern forming! I would not have picked it, but it seems that many have sharper eyes than me.
    Honest Reporting regularly go to a site cal…

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