Zombie is #1!

Me too.

Go Zombie!

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ZOMBIE!

Here is the most reasonable and articulate defense of Reuters and their prized photographer.

[Link: blamebush.typepad.com...]

Don't miss it.

Zombie, You've outdone yourself (yet again).

Way to go Zombie! I love reading your stuff! You find a way to lay out the facts in a straight forward manner that cannot be deined!

Keep it up!

Thanks Zombie and the rest of the bloggers out there who are finally exposing the charade that has been cast on journalism for the last 25 years.

Edward R Murrow thanks you !

I was check'n earlier...gj zombie, more evidence for the MSMalinformed..

I'm also amused and jump in Reuter's hits the last two days...do you want to bring that up in the MSM?

I love it. I have been waiting for this day since we began examining the IBm Selectronic and realized the news was not just biased, but made up.

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pimf

A terrific overview of the Reuters Photoshop Scandal

Not to nitpick, but it's not just about the Photoshop scandal! In fact, that's the whole point of the essay -- it's about how there is much more to the scandal than just Photoshop. That's the point we need to keep driving home!

I must say, that of all the anti-idiotarians out there, I use zombie's info the most in my footbound anti-jackass campaign.

Rare photograph of Zombie.

Was the original tip-off from Mike in an e-mail or in a comment thread? If the latter, which thread? I was traveling on Saturday and missed how it all started.

OT

Oh, and BTW, shame on me for missing the 3M post.

/ducks head in shame

Zombie,

You are the best. Except at baseball trivia.

Charles, as always, remains humble here; gives good and well deserved kudos to the 'Z' for the concise and great report on the episode.

Where else can you find this ?

Honest, clear, concise 'reportage' (sorry) about the occurrences/mis-steps/LIES by the MSM.

Mucho thanks, respect and love to you both !

Of course, like everyone in the middle of this situation, I'm totally overwhelmed with details and breaking stories and news tips. I apologize if I've fallen behind and left out some of the latest exposés! But the point of the page is that it's designed to be a permanent reference point, something that, months from now, people can link to as a comprehensive overview of the scandal. Thus far, all the blogs are bursting out with the scandal-du-heure (scandal-du minute, actually), but there's not place for a newbie to go and answer the question, "What the hell is this all about?"

So, feel free to send the link to folks that generally don't follow the blogs. That's who we need to educate. There's nothing on my page that everyone here doesn't already know.

It makes you wonder how long MSM has been derelict. Is it only because of the Internet that the jig is finally up?

Zombie's reporting and analysis of the whole Fauxtography Fiasco is so clear and understandable.

Kudos to him and much appreciation.

Has Tony Snow said anything about this yet? Seems like some press credentials should be in serious trouble.

Zombie = HIRED

Tyler Hicks = FIRED

Zombie,

Great overview. You've been working hard.

It's amazing that you can get all this done and still work a full-time shift at Starbucks.

#12 shrew_tamer
I must say, that of all the anti-idiotarians out there, I use zombie's info the most in my footbound anti-jackass campaign.

I can't quite visualize what that might be, but I like the sound of it!

Zombie, that is just fantastic work. It's a great summary for those readers just learning about the scam that's been perpetrated.

#13 Ringo the Gringo
Rare photograph of Zombie.

Nuh-uh.

What about the picture of you and me out on a date?

Bet you forgot about that one.

#3 blue_like_jazz
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ZOMBIE!

I can't get no respect!

/loosens collar

#18 zombie

see #12

This is why your site is such a superb source, from today's anti propaganda propaganda, to yesterday's rockets into Israel, all the way to saline inflated testicles. You've got it all.

Great Job as usual Zombie

And Charles, congrats on another big story, you provide a valuable service. I just got back from 3 weeks vacation, imagine my surprise when I logged on a couple days ago and saw the hit counter and slow mo web site.

you Rock Charles

#6 neapoi
You find a way to lay out the facts in a straight forward manner that cannot be deined!

That's my goal! Glad I achieved it. Thanks.

Tyler Hicks should be fired for that last set of photos. It is impossible not to conclude he knew the photos were stages. He too kpictures of the man both alive an dfeigning death.

So, feel free to send the link to folks that generally don't follow the blogs. That's who we need to educate.

exactly what I'm doing

#14 Abu Al-Poopypants

Was the original tip-off from Mike in an e-mail or in a comment thread? If the latter, which thread? I was traveling on Saturday and missed how it all started

Yeah, really. Who's Mike? He deserves a trophy or something.

Gettting a hat tip on an LGF entry that makes the (inter)national media news cycle is reward in itself.

::toots own horn::

_{Hannity & Colmes counts, doesn't it?}

Zombie,

What about the picture of you and me out on a date?

Your legs don't look so skinny in person.

#16 MSMediaCritic
Zombie,

You are the best. Except at baseball trivia.

Yeah, I suck at that. Could be because I don't follow sports!

Besides, I'm much better at minutia than trivia. Picayune folderol is another specialty of mine.

Really, really good stuff, Zombie.

As usual, you rock.

Picayune folderol.

LMAO!

=^D

picayune

, I love it.

Great little Mississippi town, somewhat worse for wear from Katrina.

Right on, Zombie! You're so correct, it is not just about photoslop. The important fact is that the MSM has been unmasked as naked propagandists. The fakery is being uncovered so quickly now that we can barely keep up! Like a snowball rolling downhill turning into a titanic avalanche! Who could have predicted that reading a blog would turn into a thrill ride? Tickets, please...

[Link: www.perrific.com...]

Zombie:

A great piece, as is all of your work. Thank you!

I agree with Zombie: the point to ram home, repeatedly, and with EMPHASIS, is that the "news" out of the moslem ME is staged.

I still remember how shocking it was (and I'm pretty cynical as an ex-reporter) to see the photo of the rock-throwing Arab teenager and the crowd of 40 Western photographers surrounding him and snapping eagerly away. These aren't willing dupes; they're collaborators.

They are on the other side. We need to shave their heads, tar and feather them, and ride them out of town on a split rail.

/spit

Zombie, the last series of photos of the guy in the shorts... someone found a NYT caption that laid it out more clearly... that he fell and was being helped up by the other guy.

MM has it, actually:

[Link: michellemalkin.com...]

If anything, gross misrepresentation in the captioning.

We're all extra-aware of this sort of shiite media chicanery from LGF, (and by association),Zombie, and other thinking-clearly blogs, etc.

I just hope it somehow trickles down to the chattering classes/huddled masses out there.

WOW zombie it was worth the wait (24ish)hrs!

Your essays get better all the time!

#42 efuseakay

I see Michelle has picked up on the "fauxtography" designation.

Excellent.

/Doing my best Mr. Burns routine

Zombie, you've made my life easier with this report. I've been sending links to some of the Hollywood moonbats I work with, but was starting to get overwhelmed by the volume of fauxtography that keeps surfacing. Now I can send the idiots a link to your essay and save lots of time. Thank you!

#42 efuseakay

someone found a NYT caption that laid it out more clearly... that he fell and was being helped up by the other guy.

Even with that it still looks like ham-fisted staging. It's still blatant Hizbaloo propaganda.

...and THAT's why I listen to zombie.

just in from al reuters:
After the the date Ringo the Gringo had this to say about Zombie.

#25 [Mark]
Zombie, that is just fantastic work. It's a great summary for those readers just learning about the scam that's been perpetrated.

Exactly! That is the very purpose for which I made the page.

#28 shrew_tamer
#18 zombie

all the way to saline inflated testicles. You've got it all.

Y'know, I put a new-and-improved version of the Scrotum Man picture up on my site a couple months ago, and no one seems to have noticed. It wasn't a very clear picture to begin with (a bit blurry and grainy), but I made a bigger and higher-res version of the one you're all familiar with.

So, in case you're interested, meet Scrotum Man 2.0!

#42 efuseakay
Zombie, the last series of photos of the guy in the shorts... someone found a NYT caption that laid it out more clearly... that he fell and was being helped up by the other guy.

MM has it, actually:

[Link: michellemalki......]

If anything, gross misrepresentation in the captioning.

See? That's what I'm talking about: step away from the computer for a few minutes, and already I'm about three news cycles behind the curve.

Thanks for the tip. I'll add it to the pile.

#51 zombie

...and just as I was about to hit the sack, I thought I'd give this thread one last check. For my efforts I received LARGE SCROTUM MAN in HD! Were my ass detachable, it would be on the ground right now due to my uncontrollable laughter. Thanks once again Zombie, you truly are the gift that keeps on giving.

/over and out

Charles:

The post should be renamed Zombie: SMS Photo Phraud

(since AP, NYT and other are involved)

REMEMBER the left has always been into retouched and staged photoes.

Joe Stalin used to do it all the time.

the msm learned from the best.

I did some searching on the web, and I think I found a shot of Hajj busily at work with fauxtoshop...

[Link: outnow.ch...]

#42 efuseakay

If the guy fell and was injured (he sure looks healthy and unmarked for either a "corpse" or an injured person!) why is he firmly clasping his baseball cap against his side with his elbow? Why is his head drooping sort of limply as if he were dead or at least unconscious? Why would someone attempting to "help" an injured man be pulling him up by the arm instead of tending to the alleged "injuries" or trying to stabilize possible back or neck injuries? Why would his feet be braced, and the muscles in his left leg tensed, as if bracing himself in the rubble?

Staged? Oh yeah...

And these are just the most obvious fakes. There are people good out there with photoshop and lacking integrity. Any propoganda photos have to be distrusted.

It is time to move on.

Clearly, Reuters is the Enron of journalism. Too bad.

Now, it's time to start looking at other news outlets through the prism of their association with Reuters. E.g.: "The New York Times, still tainted by its relationship with Reuters."

Julio

Outstanding work as usual, zombie!

(My hat's off to you, conveniently tucked under my arm as I sprawl barechested across the rubble.)

First--thank you Charles. I am so proud of an American citizen who proves that one person can be heard above the dissident roar.
Second--thank you Zombie! And.. oh please may I use your info on this link for my class? I am teaching them about Aristotle's Ethos, Pathos, Logos--this really fits the bill. I'm determined to give my students the tools they need for evaluating incoming propaganda (oh, sorry, I mean breaking news).

Remember when you said I could use copies of your shots of the San Francisco protest with the Red Chinese woman choreographing the protesters? Well, that proved to be highly effective--just like I know this will.

To both of you--I so admire your courage, your analysis and your sense of humor (the last must serve you well in some of these situations.

I'm sure Pinchy doens't give a raaaaats aaaaass.
He's sipping coctails with his big DNC buddies out at the compound.

Awesome as always Zombie. Have forwarded your link to many people I know who have their heads buried in the sand.

One thing I was wondering about the last series of photos......where did his hat go? I mean you can play dead but you still want to keep your hat.

Pic one : With hat on his head

Pic two.
Wow, it must be rigor mortis. His hat is folded and he is "clutching" it to his side. Obviously he died with his hat at his side and as rigor set in, it because clutched to his side, so he could be buried with it I guess. He must have loved that hat

PIMF---it because became clutched to his side

Zombie:

I tried e-mailing you, but everything gets kicked back.

Excellent work (as always) with the Reuters Scandal page, but I have one suggestion. Regarding the bridge photos you wrote: "The foreshortening is so extreme that it's hard to believe it could be produced simply by different lenses, but it may be possible."

It's not merely possible. I no longer have any doubt that what is being seen is extreme foreshortening. The notion the truck might have been staged should be killed. There is no evidence in the photographs that the truck was moved. To the contrary, everything in the photos indicates the truck was not moved, so allowing for the possibility is unwarranted.

Also, regarding the "two men running pointlessly back and forth across the same bridge." Technically they could not have been running across the bridge because the bridge is out in every picture.

I created diagrams to illustrate the points I made in the LGF thread. Please see Update V in this post (diagrams at the end of the update).

I say all this because even bringing up the issue in relation to the Reuters scandal could detract from all the legitimate breaches of journalism that have been and are being uncovered.

Go Zombie !

Now there is NO excuse not to believe the Weekly World News when it claims to be "The World's Only Reliable Newspaper".

"WW2 Bomber Found on Moon!"

-about as true, and way more fun!

Zombie--most excellent.

I've e mailed the link many times already.

#65 That is extremely well illustrated work. You are probably correct. But why are the men running? It makes the photo more urgent, no?

kay1212: I'm not saying there isn't any acting going on. The people certainly aren't running from a collapsing bridge because it is already down. I'm just saying that there's no evidence that the objects in the scene are staged (the people are another matter).

ROTO-Reuter

Goes down the drain

[Link: blog.robballen.com...]

What would we do without Zombie?

What an amazing past few days for blogs. All the fake photos or staged photos discoverd by blogs just becomes so evident thanks to zombie.