Reuters Quietly Releasing Uncropped Photos

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Reuters has now published an uncropped version of the image we noted yesterday morning: Photo from Reuters Pictures.

Notice the timestamp. As I write, it was published to the wires 6 hours ago.

Long after Reuters was caught with the cropped version.

So they’re apparently trying now to quietly release the uncropped versions without acknowledging the alterations.

Please note that the Reuters Guide to Standards and Photoshop makes it clear that 1) this kind of cropping to remove vital context is forbidden, and 2) Reuters’ own standards require a public acknowledgment of corrections and revisions.

Reuters appears to be violating their own published principles and standards.

By the way, since yesterday morning LGF has had 106 visits from people at the Canary Wharf offices of Reuters — far more than usual. And every one of these visits goes directly to one of our posts about the altered photos.

And there isn’t a word about this at the blog of Reuters CEO Tom Glocer.

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27 comments
1 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:38:22am

The Apache server crashed for a couple of minutes. Traffic’s very high.

2 Idle Drifter  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:38:41am

Reuters is caught with their hand in the cookie jar.

3 avanti  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:39:02am

Looks like the Israeli media is running the story too.

Jerusalem Post.

4 Cannadian Club Akbar  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:39:14am

re: #1 Charles

I had problems getting here.

5 Political Atheist  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:40:41am

Glad to be here, glad to see Reuters cave in to your pressure. I think I’ll just lurk, and watch who shows up.

6 Kefirah  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:41:06am

re: #1 Charles

i’ll suffer through high traffic and slower loading times if it means the word gets out.

kol hakavod, charles.

7 Cato the Elder  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:41:10am

C’mon, Charles, slow down. They’re doing their best to downplay, stonewall, and silently correct this mess, and you’re not playing fair. Waaah!

8 avanti  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:41:13am

re: #4 Cannadian Club Akbar

Traffic, I suspect, this story is going viral.

9 SoSo  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:41:31am

Its all SoSo now, Helen Thomas quits.

[Link: www.yahoo.com…]

[Link: www.foxnews.com…]

Now she will be able to post on Daily Kos.

Guest Freak.

10 middy  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:41:33am

Charles busts Reuters again! High five!

11 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:42:39am

Helen Thomas is history. So much for “The Face that Launched a Thousand Ships Lunches”

12 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:42:47am

I just went through the Daily Life slideshow for gaza and I couldn’t find the cropped version in the slideshow but a Direct link to the cropped pitcures still works. They are trying to hide their handiwork.

13 Gus  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:42:49am

re: #3 avanti

Looks like the Israeli media is running the story too.

Jerusalem Post.

They didn’t link. It does say this:

At the popular blog LittleGreenFootballs.com, which initially took note of the missing knife, the blog’s founder Charles Johnson posted the story along with exhibits of both sets of pictures to the site.

I did a direct Tweet to IDFSpokesperson yesterday on one of the other articles.

14 Cannadian Club Akbar  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:42:52am

re: #9 SoSo

re: #10 middy

WOOT to both!!

15 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:43:31am

re: #13 Gus 802

I did a direct Tweet to IDFSpokesperson yesterday on one of the other articles.

Yeah, I’m very surprised he hasn’t picked this up yet.

16 Kefirah  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:44:51am

re: #3 avanti

mentioned on the previous thread, but arutz sheva is running the story as well, though without reference to charles.

[Link: www.israelnationalnews.com…]

however, even without the direct link or mention, willing to bet that people are busy googling the key words of the story, and that leads them here.

17 Gus  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:45:18am

Reuters is up to 106 hits.

18 Obdicut  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:48:57am

And the text accompanying the pictures, which I feel is also biased, remains unchanged, as far as I can tell.

Here’s another example:

[Link: www.daylife.com…]

The text says they’re ‘holding’ the commando. They’re clearly dragging him up the stairs. I do not think that ‘hold’ is anywhere close to an accurate word.

19 jvic  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:49:07am

Bravo. Well done. Congratulations.

20 Fozzie Bear  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:51:00am

It is fascinating to watch this unfold. I couldn’t get LGF to load earlier, and was wondering why. Now it makes sense.

21 darthstar  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 9:52:19am

re: #17 Gus 802

Reuters is up to 106 hits.

I’m guessing they pick up the headlines as they come…I’ve done some consulting work at the Canary Wharf building…it’s an impressive place…one entire floor is an environmentally controlled server room. You walk into a special glass chamber that rotates you in to the racks. Kind of funky.


Oh, and then there’s this.

22 Edward Halper  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 10:00:41am

The cropped photo still appears rotated. That way, one misses that the Israeli soldier is being dragged down or up a staircase. That makes the picture slightly less insidious.

I think it was Kilgore Trout who pointed out that the original had been rotated.

23 Oh no...Sand People!  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 11:21:36am

“Hi Tom!”

*waves*

-Oh no…Sand People!

24 Ming  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 4:50:11pm

I notice Andrew Sullivan has not posted about Reuters… and he’s been all over the flotilla violence, and he posts all the time about the state of journalism today. You’d think he’d naturally be interested in this Reuters story.

25 FrumiousFalafel  Mon, Jun 7, 2010 7:57:52pm

Excellent find Charles! You’d think this kind of nonsense would have stopped after you showed how much Reuters did this kind of cropping and Photoshop editing before… but they’ll keep trying to lie every chance they can (visually lie, that is).

Also excellent idea to super expose that area of darkness to find another wounded soldier! That was sheer brilliance. (I wouldn’t even have thought to have loosed in the first place!)

26 gDavid  Tue, Jun 8, 2010 2:45:12am

Real good work on this, reminds me of a ‘rocket stuck ambulance’ before.

27 Sacred Plants  Tue, Jun 8, 2010 10:48:21am

Putting aside the question whether those people were pirates or liberators, it remains to be considered that the proliferation of such a piece of knife porn is capable of triggering copycats.


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