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 Posted: Wed 09 Aug 2006 17:19 Post subject: Media Bias in Reporting on the Israel-Lebanon Conflict |
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Some of you may have heard that a photograph showing the damage caused to a Lebanese city by Israeli bombs circulated was altered by the photgrapher. This writer asks whether the media can be trusted to report the conflict fairly.
Full Text: http://www.hirhome.com/israel/hezbollah7.htm
| Quote: | That this photo was doctored was shown by Charles Johnson, who runs a blog called Little Green Footballs. About this photo, Johnson explained:
“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.
Smoke simply does not contain repeating symmetrical patterns like this, and you can see the repetition in both plumes of smoke. There’s really no question about it. It’s not only the plumes of smoke that were ‘enhanced.’ There are also cloned buildings.”[1]
The point of doctoring the photograph was to impress the viewer with a picture of great ‘devastation’ wrought by the Israelis. Honest Reporting explains that,
“Faced with an onslaught of bloggers taking up the case and demonstrating how clearly the picture had been doctored, Reuters finally came clean and admitted that the picture was a lie.”[2]
To control the damage, Reuters issued what is called a ‘picture kill’ telling everybody not to use it. |
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