TagsTagsYou may have noticed that our Reuters visitor counter has been ticking over pretty steadily for the past couple of days, as the folks in the London Canary Wharf offices check what we’ve been saying about them. Interestingly, many of these hits from Reuters are coming from a link on ...
Reuters, Media Bias, Photoshop, Ethics, Lebanon, Fauxtography
I hate blowing my own horn, but people want to know this stuff, so here’s the skinny on the upcoming lizardoid media takeover, using the pretext of the Reuters Photoshop scandal as an excuse for world domination: * Tomorrow morning sometime after 7 am, ABC’s Good Morning America will show a ...
Reuters, Media Bias, Photoshop, Ethics, Lebanon, Fauxtography
I have so many tips and links to photos in my Inbox after another day spent feeding the media machine, that I know I’m going to miss some. But that’s OK, because the blogosphere is still churning away with a fresh eye toward spotting frauds—and here’s one you’ve got to ...
Reuters, Media Bias, Photoshop, Ethics, Lebanon, Fauxtography, New York Times
Some more possible evidence of MSM fauxtography (hat tip: kay1212) at OpinionJournal. And here’s another at Hot Air: Another bogus photo? UPDATE at 8/8/06 2:08:50 pm: The Passion of the Toys. UPDATE at 8/8/06 6:32:11 pm: The photo linked by OpinionJournal above apparently shows a body with rigor mortis: Post on Washington Post Removed.
Reuters, Media Bias, Photoshop, Ethics, Lebanon, Fauxtography
On CNN’s Reliable Sources, Richard Engel details Hizballah’s management of the news from Lebanon. (Hat tip: TVNewser.) KURTZ: Richard Engel in Lebanon, let’s talk a little bit about your efforts to cover Hezbollah. Have you had instances in which Hezbollah guerillas have tried to interfere with your reporting? ENGEL: Yes and no; ...
Lebanon, Israel, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Hisbollah, Propaganda, Qana, Houla
For those who still don’t want to believe that Hizballah is stage managing the news from Beirut, please note this statement from TIME magazine reporter Christopher Allbritton, reported by J. Peter Pham & Michael I. Krauss: Hate to Say We Told You So, But... Time magazine stringer Christopher Allbritton, writing on ...
Lebanon, Israel, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Hisbollah, Propaganda, Qana, Houla
Don’t miss Michelle Malkin’s Vent today: Picture Kill.
Richard at EU Referendum has some very apt comments on the Reuters Photoshop Scandal, and the likelihood that photos of the aftermath of the Qana bombing were staged by Hizballah. I’ve tried to bring up this subject in every interview, because I agree with Richard that this practice is much ...
The “progressives” at Media Matters are hopping mad that I suggested some of the photographs from the Qana bombing may have been staged: CNN’s Nguyen failed to challenge claims that Qana photos were staged. Their counter-argument consists of pointing out that the wire services have denied staging any photos. So now ...
Reuters, Media Bias, Photoshop, Ethics, Lebanon, Media Matters, Soros
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has apologized to Muslim leaders for supporting Israel. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has apologized to Muslim leaders who accused him of taking Israel’s side in the violence in Lebanon by going to a pro-Israel rally and ignoring their invitations to interfaith peace vigils. Villaraigosa met with 10 Muslim ...
Los Angeles, Israel, Schwarzenegger, Lebanon, Hizballah, Hamas, Villaraigosa
Jeff Jarvis posts some on-target comments about the Reuters Photoshop Scandal at The Guardian’s semi-blog-thing, and faces a storm of hateful anti-rational attacks from Guardian readers: Making war look worse. The first comment: MisterGrumpy Comment No. 163497 August 7 16:19 GBR Either way it’s a gift to the swivel-eyed mouth-breathers who read LGF. If I were ...
Jeff Harrell has a fascinating interview with a veteran AP freelance photographer about the process of freelance photojournalism, and where the system might have broken down at Reuters: The Shape of Days: A photojournalist weighs in on the Adnan Hajj scandal.
Power Line has still more Reuters photographs from Lebanon that show evidence of staging: A Bridge Too Weird. One of my mottos used to be, “It still isn’t weird enough.” OK. Now it’s weird enough.
More propaganda falls apart: Lebanon’s PM revises death toll from 40 to 1. BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Monday that one person was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the southern village of Houla, not 40 as he had earlier reported. “The massacre in Houla, it turned ...
Lebanon, Israel, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Hisbollah, Propaganda, Qana, Houla
Power Line has another almost unbelievable example of distorted, misleading photojournalism from Reuters, as two photographs taken weeks apart show the same bombed area—and each photo’s caption claims that the bombing just occurred: Reuters calls the doctor, take 2. UPDATE at 8/7/06 8:38:31 am: And here’s another example of misleading photojournalism from ...
Reuters has removed all the photographs by Adnan Hajj from their news wires: Reuters withdraws all photos by Lebanese freelance. Notice he’s now a “freelance.” And notice they go out of their way not to mention Little Green Footballs. LONDON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Reuters withdrew all 920 photographs by a ...
Moonbat Media has pictures of the pro-Hizballah demonstration in London yesterday that really bring home the depth of Britain’s problem with radical Islam: Unconditional Ceasefire Now! protest, London, 5 August 2006.
From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons, of course.
Reuters, Media Bias, Photoshop, Ethics, Lebanon, Cox and Forkum
Over at Fark.com, a lot of the kids think Dan Rather and Mary Mapes were telling the truth, LGF is a tool of the Worldwide Zionist Conspiracy, and there’s no problem with Adnan Hajj’s photographs: Reuters’ Lebanese photographer: ‘denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying that he was trying ...
Rusty Shackleford has done an analysis on another Adnan Hajj photograph, discovering more absolutely conclusive evidence of fraud in a picture that purports to be of an Israeli jet firing missiles into Lebanon: Another Fake Reuters Photo from Lebanon. LGF readers have been tirelessly digging into this and other photos, and ...
Walid Phares shines a spotlight on another nasty little coordination between Reuters and pro-Hizballah reporters: Reuters’ Hijacking Lebanon’s Answer to the UN? A few hours after a Franco-American draft for a UN Security Council resolution was released, pro-Hezbollah lobbies and allies launched a campaign to hijack the response of Lebanon to ...
He gets around, from town to town. Here’s the Qana “rescue worker” in the green helmet, photographed extensively in Qana by Adnan Hajj for Reuters, now in Tyre, doing what he does best: making sure wire service photographers get close-up pictures of dead bodies. (Warning! Gruesome images linked below.) Photo 1: Emergency ...
Lebanon, Israel, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Hisbollah, Propaganda, Qana, Tyre, Green Helmet
Demonstrators hold photos of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah during a demonstration against Israel, in Brussels, Sunday Aug. 6, 2006. More than 5,000 demonstrators came out into the streets of Brussels to demonstrate against the current hostilities between Lebanon and Israel. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Hizballah, Hesbollah, Lebanon, Terrorism, Brussels, Radical Islam
OK, now things are getting weird. This Reuters photograph shows blatant evidence of manipulation. Notice the repeating patterns in the smoke; this is almost certainly caused by using the Photoshop “clone” tool to add more smoke to the image. (Hat tip: Mike.) It’s so incredibly obvious, it reminds me of the faked ...
After weeks of telling other Arab leaders they should “get off his back,” Hizballah kingpin Hassan Nasrallah has changed his tune. On an August 3rd Al-Manar broadcast, he practically begged them to help promote a ceasefire: Hizbullah Secretary-General Nasrallah Calls on Arab Leaders to Promote Ceasefire in Meetings With US. ...