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Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris interviewed me a few weeks ago about the Iranian fauxtography incident, and today the interview and his excellent piece on the use of faked photos is in the New York Times: Photography as a Weapon - Errol Morris.
Media Backspin has some information on Iran’s SEPAH news network, responsible for floating that faked missile launch photograph to Western news sources.
LGF, Iran, Nuclear Proliferation, Shahab 3 Missile, Fauxtography
At least one of the photographs released today by Iran and published by an unquestioning Western media is a Photoshop fake: (Hat tip: webs87.) UPDATE at 7/9/08 8:20:34 pm: An animated version at Suitably Flip: Mahmoud the Fauxtographer. UPDATE at 7/10/08 9:25:53 am: Here’s another one for my collection: ...
Fauxtography, Shahab 3 Missile, Nuclear Proliferation, Iran, LGF, Photoshop
Sheesh. How embarrassing for Fox News to get busted by moonbat attack site Media Matters with stupid Photoshopped pictures of New York Times reporters: Fox News airs altered photos of NY Times reporters.
Here’s a good article at Scientific American on 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo.
A great piece by Stephen D. Cooper: A Concise History of the Fauxtography Blogstorm in the 2006 Lebanon War - American Communication Journal.
Looks like someone got a little ... uh ... over-zealous with Photoshop in a yearbook for McKinney High School in Texas: Students’ photos altered in McKinney yearbook. Imagine posing for a yearbook photo and ending up with someone else’s body – or looking nude – in the final product. ...
The Reuters visitor count is going up again today, as employees in their UK Canary Wharf facility have used Google and Technorati to get to these LGF posts: Reuters Cameraman Killed in Gaza, Visits from Reuters Spike A Death Threat from Reuters (Bumped)
Fadel Shana, a cameraman for the Reuters wire service, was killed yesterday in Gaza, under somewhat suspicious circumstances. And oddly enough, there were 10 hits yesterday from the UK Canary Wharf office of Reuters; all of those hits went to this LGF page from 2006, when a car Shana was ...
Now the jihadis are getting into the throbbing fauxtography act: Elder of Ziyon: Hamas exposes other terrorist fauxtography. Also see: Snapped Shot: Fauxtography, Jihadi-Style.
Yes, the Daily Kos Kooks are now accusing Hillary Clinton of “darkening” an image of Barack Obama that appears in a video posted at the Clinton site: Nutroots accuse Hillary of darkening footage of Obama to make him look “blacker”. Here’s the Kos diary, with more than 800 comments from ...
Bloggers in Tennessee have caught a local “alternative” paper running a doctored photograph of a GOP politician. Rep. Stacey Campfield said he doesn’t mind a little controversy. The Knoxville lawmaker once tried to join the black caucus. So, when he championed the law to not allow homosexual and ...
Our visitor count is pretty high this morning, because of this interesting link: The World’s Most Famous Photoshop Fakes. LGF has been deliberately blocked from appearing on Digg’s front page (no matter how many diggs an LGF story gets, it is never “made popular”), but the Photoshop article appeared there—so ...
Michelle questions their cognitive ability: MoveOn’s idiotic Thanksgiving ad: They still can’t figure out what American troops look like.
Randall Hoven’s list of the top 101 media frauds is a real eye opener: Media Dishonesty Matters. We are being fed false and misleading information, in matters big and small. It has come from trusted sources such as established newspapers, experienced journalists, Pulitzer Prize winners and Nobel Peace ...
The Muslim Public Affairs Committee, a UK radical Islamic front group that doesn’t even try to hide their vile antisemitism (they’ve previously linked to and used images from neo-Nazi web sites), has published the name, address, and phone number of a shop that’s selling... gasp!... blood dates! Alert! Blood Dates: ...
LGF, MPACUK, Radical Islam, Antisemitism, Israel, Boycott, Fauxtography
The field of fauxtography is getting even stranger, with new software that modifies images by removing and/or adding “seams” of less important information, allowing images to be stretched and compressed without visual distortion. That’s impressive enough, but the real jawdropper is how easy it is to completely remove people from ...
Sometimes the propaganda is so obvious it’s almost funny. An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City. At least 175 people were slaughtered on Tuesday and more than 200 ...
The top-quality fact-checking that can only be achieved by large media corporations is on fine display today, as Reuters is caught by a 13-year old Finnish schoolboy representing photos from the movie “Titanic” as pictures from the Russian North Pole expedition: Reuters gets that sinking feeling. News agency Reuters has ...
For some reason, we’re getting a lot of referrals from this year-old page at Digg.com, linking to our exposé of the Reuters fauxtography incident: Digg - Fake but accurate: Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut? It’s a textbook study in idiot leftist denial. And I’m not only talking about the comments. ...
During Israel’s war against Hizballah, at LGF we were continually outraged by the media’s uncritical promulgation of terrorist propaganda, and their overwhelming bias against Israel. The barrage of staged and manipulated disinformation culminated in the infamous Adnan Hajj fauxtography incident; and it can be argued that the culture of tacit ...
LGF, Israel, Palestinians, Media Bias, Reuters, MSM, Lebanon, Fauxtography, Harvard
Here’s an excellent article by Michael Freund on the blogosphere, and its ability to counteract the non-stop deluge of anti-Israel propaganda pouring out of mainstream media: Circumvent old media-go for the blogosphere. THE FACT IS that blogs are a vibrant source of energetic and independent thinking, often providing readers with ...
During the height of the Reuters Fauxtography Scandal, Reuters claimed that they removed all of the work of fraudulent photographer Adnan Hajj from their catalog; but the Jawa Report has discovered that this isn’t true: Fauxtography Now: Reuters Still Hosting Adnan Hajj Photo. But they did remove their original announcement ...
Fauxtography, Lebanon, Israel, Qana, Media Swarm, Media Bias, Propaganda, Reuters
One of Bob Owens’ readers contacted Winchester’s parent company Olin to ask them about that Iranian Photoshop fraud, and received the following reply: Thank you for visiting Olin’s website. Your inquiry was forwarded to me for response. The ammunition boxes appearing in the picture are similar to commercial packaging we ...
Fauxtography, Iran, Weapons, Fars News, LA Times, Winchester
Blogger Myra Langerhaus wrote to Kim Murphy of the Los Angeles Times, about their article on Iran’s claim of US involvement in attacks on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and received an answer: When Journalists write back.