Reuters Sanitizing Multi-Use Building Shots?
Charles Johnson
Fri Aug 11, 2006 at 3:59 pm PDT • Views: 445
Here’s a Reuters photo filed at 10:50 am ET, August 9:
A Lebanese civilian walks past a building wrecked by an overnight Israeli air raid on Beirut’s southern suburbs, August 9, 2006. (Sharif Karim/Reuters)
The caption for the same photo, filed again at 12:26 pm ET, August 9, has a very conspicuous change:
A Lebanese civilian walks past a building in Beirut’s southern suburbs, August 9, 2006. REUTERS/Sharif Karim
UPDATE at 8/11/06 4:08:49 pm:
And yet, it was also posted a third time at 2:37 pm ET, August 10, with the same possibly misleading caption:
A Lebanese civilian gestures as he walks past a building wrecked by an overnight Israeli air raid on Beirut’s southern suburbs August 9, 2006. REUTERS/Sharif Karim
This one was apparently edited to put the “wrecked by an overnight Israeli air raid” line back in, because it’s slightly different from the August 9 original: it’s missing a comma after the word “suburbs.”
I rarely employ acronyms, but wtf?
Frank says: