Monday, August 07, 2006
Reuters pulls phony Beirut photo
Read the amazing full story at littlegreenfootballs.com
In the most recent in a series of online controversies to take on the mainstream media, a Web blog discredited a Reuters photograph of the fighting in Lebanon, forcing the news agency to issue an apology and remove the image from their archives.
The photograph by Adnan Hajj, shows plumes of smoke rising from downtown Beirut after an IAF bombing. Notice the repeating patterns in the smoke caused by clumsy use of the "clone" tool.
The US-based blog LittleGreenFootballs.com first wrote about the controversy and included a series of detailed animations drawing attention to doctored elements of the photograph. (Take a look at the original blog here, its incredible. There's much more than just the zig-zags in the smoke. )
What next, one wonders?
In the most recent in a series of online controversies to take on the mainstream media, a Web blog discredited a Reuters photograph of the fighting in Lebanon, forcing the news agency to issue an apology and remove the image from their archives.
The photograph by Adnan Hajj, shows plumes of smoke rising from downtown Beirut after an IAF bombing. Notice the repeating patterns in the smoke caused by clumsy use of the "clone" tool.
The US-based blog LittleGreenFootballs.com first wrote about the controversy and included a series of detailed animations drawing attention to doctored elements of the photograph. (Take a look at the original blog here, its incredible. There's much more than just the zig-zags in the smoke. )
What next, one wonders?
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