This photograph by Adnan Hajj, a Lebanese photographer, showed thick black smoke rising above buildings in the Lebanese capital after an Israeli air raid. The Reuters news agency initially published this photograph on their web site and then withdrew it when it became evident that the original image had been manipulated to show more and darker smoke. "Hajj has denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying that he was trying to remove dust marks and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under", said Moira Whittle, the head of public relations for Reuters. "This represents a serious breach of Reuters' standards and we shall not be accepting or using pictures taken by him." A second photograph by Hajj was also determined to have been doctored.
AS IF there wasn't enough smoke in the sky already. This shoopjob is so effing botched. You can see all the rubber stamp marks. SO much fail on this... lolololol
ReplyDeleteSeems pretty harmless to me, just darker. I mean I guess the breach of trust is the main problem here though.
ReplyDeletethat is a terrible job of faking it, at least he could have put some effort into it
ReplyDeleteHmm, shouldn't be editing things like that
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