TagsTagsLast month we noted a report that during the Adnan Hajj photo faking scandal, news agency Reuters had not only fired Hajj, but quietly fired a top photo editor as well. On Friday at the Lightstalkers pro photographers’ forum, John Bap had an interesting post on this subject, providing a glimpse ...
Reuters, Media Bias, Propaganda, Fauxtography, Lebanon, Lightstalkers
Honest Reporting has a look at the revelation by photojournalist Bruno Stevens that his pictures from Lebanon were published with misleading captions by Time Magazine: Time Magazine Gets Caught Lying. I’m not holding my breath waiting for Time to account for their outrageous distortions. Mainstream media are curiously uninterested in stories ...
Fauxtography, Mainstream Media, Propaganda, Reuters, Lightstalkers, TIME Magazine
Solomonia has a report on the Lightstalkers forum for professional photographers, where the comment thread about Tyler Hicks’ “Pieta” photo reveals a “profession in crisis and denial.” Here’s a previous LGF post about Lightstalkers during the Reuters Fauxtography scandal, when one of the photographers revealed that he had personally witnessed the ...
Fauxtography, Mainstream Media, Propaganda, Reuters, Lightstalkers