Reply #4: This article is anti-Israel propaganda

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From the article:

Keeping an eagle eye on the media, Israel and its supporters have forced Reuters to withdraw one picture — one picture out of thousands — from Lebanon in which, according to the explanation of the news agency, “improper use” was made of photo software. The photographer was suspended.

Actually, Reuters killed over 900 pictures taken by the photographer, Adnan Hajj.
References:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09photo.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

“By the time I checked my e-mail at 10 Sunday morning, we had killed the doctored photo and suspended the photographer,” he said. The agency subsequently stopped using the photographer and has removed the 920 digital photographs of his in its archives. It is reviewing them to see if any others have been improperly altered.

http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=2&x_article=1175

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And more evidence is mounting in the blogosphere that other pictures Reuters has distributed online and to newspapers have been manipulated, also in the direction of presenting Israel as an aggressor.

This is not the first time Reuters has been implicated in photo manipulation. Back in 2001, during the first year of the Palestinian intifada against Israel, CAMERA questioned Reuters’ misrepresentation of photographs from the region. The photographs Reuters distributed supported the news agency’s overall theme of Israeli aggressors victimizing Palestinians....until one looked closer.

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In light of the Reuters photo scandal, newspaper and photo editors must begin asking harder questions about the photos they receive from the war zone. Is truth being told or are the photographs tailored to the message?

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Photo editors have expressed shock that anyone would think to question whether the photos of the rescue workers carrying dead children were staged. But it must be remembered that Hezbollah controls the Qana war zone and also controls the information and photo opportunities available to journalists, stringers and photographers. The images of rescuers parading the bodies of dead children around, and holding them up to the camera in a variety of poses raises its own questions.

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The public is becoming increasingly skeptical of information and photographs coming from Hezbollah-controlled areas. Given the growing number of inconsistencies, news consumers are demanding explanations. It is time for newspaper and photo editors to do the same.