Because of my back problems, I now blog from a comfortable recliner with my laptop on my lap (hmmm guess that is why they call it a laptop), where I can keep my legs elevated and save what little is left of this creaky body for the really important activities like walking to the bathroom. My recliner is naturally placed to be the comfortable chair for my TV, so while I blog, the TV is always on and almost always tuned to cable news. I channel surf and try to catch the latest breaking news at the appropriate times. I have waited and waited and waited some more to hear even one word regarding the scandal over the doctored Reuters photos. So far, in hours of TV listening, nary a word.
Last night's report by Charles Johnson
of Little Green Footballs that a "Beirut burning" photo that was
clearly and clumsily doctored with Photoshop editing tools had made it
way onto the wires from Reuters has morphed into what must be
considered a full-blown scandal that should, by rights, shake the news
service and other "Mainstream" Media outlets to their very foundations,
and force them to reexamine how they conduct and control their
photojournalistic efforts around the world.
Yes, you would think that a media that thrives on the smallest discrepancies of politicians, celebrities and anyone on the conservative side of the aisle would at least mention a scandal that is attracting worldwide attention. A Hollywood actor/director makes some inappropriate remarks while blotto from alcohol and those remarks generate days of coverage, print, broadcast, and electronic, but deliberate falsification of pictures under the banner of one of the principal wire services gets nada. Let your mind imagine for a moment what the mainstream media, in particular the New York Times, would publish if the Bush administration doctored war pictures. There is something very wrong with more than Adnan Hajj's picture, the big picture is totally out of whack.
Newsbusters puts forth the following points to consider:
-- Reuters has "dropped" the freelance Lebanese journalist after the image in question was shown to be doctored ...
-- The wire service offered perhaps the lamest excuse ever offered in the history of photojournalism for Adnan Hajj ...
-- Several blogs have begun analyzing Hajj's available body of work (link is to a page containing the first 10 of an estimated 346), and it is not faring well under the scrutiny.
-- Drinking from Home has noted possible problems with Reuters photos from a different photojournalist.
-- To show that the idea of staging events may not be unique to Adnan Hajj, Sweetness & Light
seriously questions, based on his whereabouts and his apparent
nonchalance, whether the person the media reported as the father of a
slain Lebanese girl was indeed her father.
... the ability of Adnan Hajj to be in so many places nearly
contemperaneously might raise questions as to whether he has been the
actual picturetaker on all of the photos submitted in his name.
-- Dumb Looks Still Free
is proposing a set of guidelines for photojournalists, including a
requirement that photos' "raw digital data (be) made available freely
for examination by the public" -- before any touching up of any kind
was done for publication purposes.
Wars today, since Vietnam, are TV wars and psyops is the most important aspect of war in today's electronic and visual world. People do not take the time to read long treatises, they are influenced by what they see. Pictures are worth a thousand words. When those pictures are false, the conclusions reached by the viewer become false by extension. This is unacceptable. The media is fond of saying they only report the facts, but more and more we are discovering that there is alot of wiggle room in their facts. When one man's fact is another man's fiction, a picture of the actual event is often used to clear up the discrepancies, but when the picture itself has been doctored, posed, manipulated, or set up, its value is zero and we, as decision makers (voters) are left with nothing on which to base our decisions. I find this incredibly disturbing.
Three
killed in Israel's third largest city after day of heavy fighting;
airstrikes target southern Beirut; 12 Israeli soldiers dead from rocket
barrage in northern Israel
In addition, four rocket landings were
located in the Ma'alot area, one landing was located in Carmiel, and
another landing was located in the Rosh Pina area. About 17 rockets hit
the Galilee area in the last barrage.
Rocket hits Kiryat Shmona (Photo: AP)
IDF sources reported that since Sunday morning, Hizbullah has
fired more than 160 rockets at Israel. One of them landed in a Kibbutz
Kfar Giladi, causing the death of 11 people and the injury of 11 others
– four of them severely.
The rocket fire continued in the afternoon, as well. At
approximately 4 p.m. a barrage of rockets landed in the area of Shlomi
and kibbutzim near Nahariya. Police and Magen David Adom forces combed
the area in order to search for casualties or damages.
An hour earlier, a volley of rockets hit the Kiryaot (Haifa's
northern suburbs). Police reported that three rockets hit the area, one
in a street. No casualties were reported. Pursuant to the situation,
courthouses were closed in Akko and the Kiryaot. Legal services for
residents of theses areas will be provided, until further notice, in
the Haifa courthouse.
Concurrent to the attacks in the Krayot area, warning sirens were
activated in Haifa, Nahariya, Afula, Zichron Yaacov, Givat Ada,
Binyamina and the surrounding areas. No rocket hit were reported in any
of these areas.
The bloggers were right, the photo was doctored. Malkin has all the details here and asks more questions.
[NOTE:Little Green Footballs is advising that their site is running slow due to the incredible amount of traffic after the yNetnews story [see first UPDATE] has brought worldwide attention. They are doing their best to provide more bandwidth.
So many people are trying to get in to Little Green Footballs this
morning that our doors are starting to get jammed with HTTP requests.
In English, this means it’s going to be a little slow around here for a
bit. One web server can only do so much, even on a dedicated box.
The details of why everyone is interested follows.If ever you needed an example of what a blogswarm looks like, this is it.]
Reutered:
Corrected version:
See additional updates and comments at the end of this post.
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When I saw this first set of a Beruit photo broken down, I wasn't sure I was seeing what the blog authors posting the photo were seeing or expected me to see, even after seeing what Ace claimed might be the original photo. I have since changed my mind. Several bloggers, including Left and Right and Photoshop expert Allah Pundit, have had a chance to work with the photo and now that I see them all together and the enlargements, I'm much more convinced. Michelle Malkin has full coverage and is waiting for an answer to her inquiry to Reuters and Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut? (LGF)
has the best shots to see what is going on. Malkin also includes a link to SportsShooters.com, a photography site and they, seem (in comments) to agree also that there is something odd going on with this photo.
OK, now things are getting weird.
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. (Hat tip: Mike.)
It’s so incredibly obvious, it reminds me of the faked CBS memos.
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.
But it’s not only the plumes of smoke that were “enhanced.” There are also cloned buildings. (See below.)
Flopping Aces is also covering this and has questions of his own about another photo by the same photographer.
UPDATE: Is Adnan Hajj the same Adnan Hajj as this? “WSG” is the Wire Services Guild, which is now the News Media Guild.
I have no idea what any of that means with regard to Adnan Hajj,
though. Does that mean he used to be a freelance photojournalist? Maybe
it means nothing. I don’t know.
US blogs, photographers: Reuters photo of smoke rising from Beirut 'shows blatant evidence of manipulation'
Yaakov Lappin
A Reuters photograph
of smoke rising from buildings in Beirut has come under attack by
American web logs following suspicions that the photograph was
distorted to show more smoke and damage.
The photograph shows two very heavy plumes of black smoke
billowing from buildings in Beirut after an Air Force attack on the
Lebanese capital.
Charles Johnson, of the Little Green Footballs blog
, which has exposed a previous attempt at fraud by a major American news corporation, wrote
: "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."
Johnson added: "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."
A series of close ups are then posted on the blog, showing that
"it’s not only the plumes of smoke that were 'enhanced.' There are also
cloned buildings." The close ups do appear to show exact replicas of
buildings appearing next to one another in the photograph.
The Sports Shooter web forum
, used by professional photographers, also examined the photo, with many users concluding that the image has been doctored.
'Looks so obviously doctored'
"I'll second the cloned smoke...but it looks so obvious that I
don't know how the photographer could have gotten away with it," wrote
one user.
After further research, Johnson posted a photograph he says is
the original image taken before distortions were made, showing much
lighter smoke rising. Other blogs have also analyzed the photographs, and reached similar conclusions, such as Left & Right
, which states: "The photo has been doctored, quite badly."
The author of the Ace of Spades
blog wrote: "Even I can see the very suspicious "clonings" of picture elements here. And I'm an idiot."
The Hot Air blog also looked at the photo, describing the image as "the worst Photoshop I have ever seen.
According to the Reuters response, the photo was doctored and has been replaced. As a blogger who depends frequently on pictures to tell my story, I find this whole mess very disturbing. Adnan Hajj, the photographer, has been responsible for many of the more provocative pictures that have come out of Lebanon and it puts in question the entire story. A picture really is worth a thousand words, but it shouldn't generate a thousand words regarding the accuracy of the picture.
The AP said information from its photo editors showed the events were
not staged, and that the time stamps could be misleading for several
reasons, including that web sites can use such stamps to show when
pictures are posted, not taken. An AFP executive said he was stunned to
be questioned about it. Reuters, in a statement, said it categorically
rejects any such suggestion.
"It's hard to imagine how someone sitting in an
air-conditioned office or broadcast studio many thousands of miles from
the scene can decide what occurred on the ground with any degree of
accuracy," said Kathleen Carroll, AP's senior vice president and
executive editor.
Carroll said in addition to personally speaking with photo
editors, "I also know from 30 years of experience in this business that
you can't get competitive journalists to participate in the kind of
(staging) experience that is being described."
Dan Riehl helps us all understand the photos and I for one am glad to see this explanation. I'm not very good picking out anything that requires spacial ability. Thanks Dan. (Go read it the whole explanation.)
Assuming that an operation like Reuters might start talking about
lighting, photo angles, negatives and such, I wanted to document the
photoshopping in a point by point fashion. I hope the Images below (1,
2 and Inset) accomplish that. They are enlargements taken from images
everyone now has, you can find them here at lgf.
For more on this story, check out some of these other links to bloggers who are on the story. And as usual, I encourage you to check out the comments sections where some of the juiciest info always resides.
Update - I'll be doing a call in radio interview with WTVN in Ohio on this shortly. You can catch the streaming here. Link fixed.
The Reuters story is literally exploding on too many blogs to link, see Memerorandum.
I have a new issue regarding Adnan Hajj and Reuters, though we may not
be able to get a straight answer. Take a look at the two images below.
And for those of you who might not have seen this last week, let's not forget the infamous Pallywood ... a real in your face on how the terrorists manipulate and make the news and worse, how our own MSM buys into the fakery.
Dan Rather/CBS's use of phony documents to lie about the president's
National Guard service; false reporting throughout the Katrina disaster
in hopes of embarrassing the president; the New York Times/Washington Post
publishing of national security secrets for, in part, the purpose of
preventing the interrogation and monitoring of the enemy; Reuters's
doctoring of war photos to undermine our ally, Israel, as it seeks to
defend itself against the enemy, etc.
Fighting
in Lebanon up sharply as both Israel and Hezbollah seek to inflict
maximum damage; unclear if either side would abide by U.N. peace
resolution
Israeli commandos clash with Hezbollah fighters in a raid on an apartment the city of Tyre
from where Israel said long-range missile had been launched hours
earlier. Eight Israeli soldiers are hurt and several militants killed
Hezbollah says it fired more missile at Haifa in retaliation for the Tyre raid, wounding at least five people
An Israeli soldier is killed after coming under Hezbollah mortar fire in the eastern village of Taibe
FRIDAY 4 AUGUST
Israeli air strikes damage bridges along a highway providing a key aid route into Lebanon, from Arida on the Syrian border
More than 20 people - thought to be farm workers - are killed in an Israeli air strike near the village of Qaa, in north eastern Lebanon near the border with Syria
Two Israeli civilians die in the village of Mughar and in Kiryat Shmona as Hezbollah rocket attacks continue - at one point more than 40 are fired in half an hour
At least five people are killed in Israeli air raids
on bridges over the main road heading north of the Lebanese capital to
Syria, with other air strikes on the town of Jounieh north of Beirut and the suburb of Ouzai in the south of the capital
Two Israeli soldiers are killed amid continuing clashes in southern Lebanon, including around or near Markaba, Ait al-Shaab and Naquora
Israeli warships shell the southern Beirut suburbs of Haret Hreik and Roweiss
UNITED NATIONS - Following is the text of a draft UN resolution on the Middle
East conflict negotiated by the United States and France and presented to the
full 15-nation Security Council Saturday. (H/T Belmont Club)
The Security Council
PP1. Recalling all its previous resolutions on Lebanon, in particular
resolutions 425 (1978), 426 (1978), 520 (1982), 1559 (2004), 1655 (2006) and 1680 (2006), as well as the statements of its President on the situation in
Lebanon, in particular the statements of 18 June 2000(S/PRST/2000/21), of 19 October 2004 (S/PRST/2004/36), of 4 May 2005 (S/PRST/2005/17) of 23 January 2006 (S/PRST/2006/3) and of 30 July 2006(S/PRST/2006/35), Advertisement
PP2. Expressing its utmost concern at the continuing escalation of
hostilities in Lebanon and in Israel since Hezbollah's attack on Israel on 12
July 2006, which has already caused hundreds of deaths and injuries on both sides, extensive damage to civilian infrastructure and hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons,
PP3. Emphasizing the need for an end of violence, but at the same time
emphasizing the need to address urgently the causes that have given rise to
the current crisis, including by the unconditional release of the abducted
Israeli soldiers,
PP4: Mindful of the sensitivity of the issue of prisoners and encouraging
the efforts aimed at settling the issue of the Lebanese prisoners detained in
Israel,
OP1. Calls for a full cessation of hostilities based upon, in particular,
the immediate cessation by Hezbollah of all attacks and the immediate cessation by Israel of all offensive military operations;
OP2. Reiterates its strong support for full respect for the Blue Line
OP3. Also reiterates its strong support for the territorial integrity,
sovereignty and political independence of Lebanon within its internationally
recognized borders, as contemplated by the Israeli-Lebanese General Armistice Agreement of 23 March 1949;
OP4. Calls on the international community to take immediate steps to extend
its financial and humanitarian assistance to the Lebanese people, including
through facilitating the safe return of displaced persons and, under the
authority of the Government of Lebanon, reopening airports and harbours for
verifiably and purely civilian purposes, and calls on it also to consider further assistance in the future to contribute to the reconstruction and
development of Lebanon;
OP5. Emphasizes the importance of the extension of the control of the
Government of Lebanon over all Lebanese territory in accordance with the
provisions of resolution 1559 (2004) and resolution 1680 (2006), and of the
relevant provisions of the Taif Accords, for it to exercise its full sovereignty and authority;
OP6. Calls for Israel and Lebanon to support a permanent ceasefire and a
long-term solution based on the following principles and elements:- strict
respect by all parties for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Israel
and Lebanon;- full respect for the Blue Line by both parties;- delineation of
the international borders of Lebanon, especially in those areas where the
border is disputed or uncertain, including in the Shebaa farms area;- security
arrangements to prevent the resumption of hostilities, including the
establishment between the Blue Line and the Litani river of an area free of
any armed personnel, assets and weapons other than those of the Lebanese armed
and security forces and of UN mandated international forces deployed in this area;- full implementation of the relevant provisions of the Taif Accords and of resolutions 1559 (2004) and 1680 (2006) that require the disarmament of all armed groups in Lebanon, so that, pursuant to the Lebanese cabinet decision of July 27, 2006, there will be no weapons or authority in Lebanon other than that of the Lebanese state;- deployment of an international force in Lebanon, consistent with paragraph 10 below;- establishment of an international embargo on the sale or supply of arms and related material to Lebanon except as authorized by its government;- elimination of foreign forces in Lebanon without the consent of its government;- provision to the United Nations of remaining maps of land mines in Lebanon in Israel's possession;
OP7: Invites the Secretary General to support efforts to secure agreements
in principle from the Government of Lebanon and the Government of Israel to
the principles and elements for a long-term solution as set forth in paragraph
6 above;
OP8: Requests the Secretary General to develop, in liaison with key
international actors and the concerned parties, proposals to implement the
relevant provisions of the Taif Accords, and of resolutions 1559 (2004) and
1680 (2006), including disarmament, and for delineation of the international
borders of Lebanon, especially in those areas where the border is disputed or
uncertain, including by dealing with the Shebaa farms, and to present those
proposals to the Security Council within thirty days;
OP9. Calls on all parties to cooperate during this period with the Security
Council and to refrain from any action contrary to paragraph 1 above that
might adversely affect the search for a long-term solution, humanitarian
access to civilian populations, or the safe return of displaced persons, and
requests the Secretary General to keep the Council informed in this regard;
OP10. Expresses its intention, upon confirmation to the Security Council
that the Government of Lebanon and the Government of Israel have agreed in
principle to the principles and elements for a long-term solution as set forth
in paragraph 6 above, and subject to their approval, to authorize in a further
resolution under Chapter VII of the Charter the deployment of a UN mandated
international force to support the Lebanese armed forces and government in providing a secure environment and contribute to the implementation of a permanent ceasefire and a long-term solution;
OP11. Requests UNIFIL, upon cessation of hostilities, to monitor its
implementation and to extend its assistance to help ensure humanitarian access
to civilian populations and the safe return of displaced persons;
OP12. Calls upon the Government of Lebanon to ensure arms or related
materiel are not imported into Lebanon without its consent and requests UNIFIL, conditions permitting, to assist the Government of Lebanon at its request;
OP13. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Council within one
week on the implementation of this resolution and to provide any relevant
information in light of the Council's intention to adopt, consistent with
paragraph 10 above, a further resolution;
OP14. Decides to remain actively seized of the matter
Criminal terror operations have been carried out from your area,
firing missiles at the state of Israel," the leaflet said, according to
Y-net, the Web site of the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot.
"For your security, leave the area immediately and head north. Who stays is risking his safety," it warned.
The leaflet said the army would act with "full force" against terror cells and was signed, "State of Israel.
Hizb'Allah rocket (FAHJR-5) fired within 30 miles of Tel Aviv. Israel launches new air strikes, taking out 4 bridges to cut off supply line between Beruit and Syria.
Israeli air strikes damage bridges along a highway providing a key aid route into Lebanon, from Arida on the Syrian border
More than 20 people - thought to be farm workers - are killed in an Israeli air strike near the village of Qaa, in north eastern Lebanon near the border with Syria
Two Israeli civilians die in the village of Mughar and in Kiryat Shmona as Hezbollah rocket attacks continue - at one point more than 40 are fired in half an hour
At least five people are killed in Israeli air raids
on bridges over the main road heading north of the Lebanese capital to
Syria, with other air strikes on the town of Jounieh north of Beirut and the suburb of Ouzai in the south of the capital
Two Israeli soldiers are killed amid continuing clashes in southern Lebanon, including around or near Markaba, Ait al-Shaab and Naquora
Israeli warships shell the southern Beirut suburbs of Haret Hreik and Roweiss
THURSDAY 3 AUGUST
More than 100 Hezbollah rockets are fired at targets in northern Israel, killing seven in Maalot and Acre
Fighting between Israeli ground forces and Hezbollah
continues in many areas along the border of southern Lebanon,
reportedly up to and beyond the village of Majdel Zoun
After carrying out 70 raids on Lebanon overnight,
Israeli aircraft resume attacks on the capital, Beirut, hitting the
southern suburb of Dahieh, a Hezbollah stronghold
Air strikes also take place against a bridge in the northern Akaar region, roads near the border with Syria, plus targets in the Bekaa Valley and around the southern town of Nabatiyeh
In Taibe three members of the same family are killed when an Israeli missile hit their home, according to Lebanese security officials
By Pamela
on Israel, the struggle for Good vs Evil
UPDATED: This is Bush’s defining moment. This is an historical crossroads. Iran
and it’s foreign legions have a plan. They have a plan to hit Tel Aviv,
to hit Jerusalem. They know Israel is going to respond to this barrage
of attacks. What choice does it have? So the Iran and Islamics will use that as
their excuse? When did they ever need an excuse?
They have a plan. Israel is reacting. Israel is reacting to
a planned strategy of attack. It is Israel that is the one the defensive. It
is Israel that is absorbing the missiles inevitably meant for the Great
Satan.
(H/T Betsy's Page) Victor Davis Hansonlooks at the pattern of appeasement today against Islamic terrorists. He compares the mood of denial now to that of the 1930s.
and
Then click on over and read Clifford May's essay on how the terrorists are so canny at manipulating opinion in the West.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Tens of thousands of Shiites thronged a Baghdad slum Friday to show support for Hezbollah as Arab anger toward Israel mounted on the Muslim holy day. Such protests have even reached Saudi Arabia, where public discontent is rare.
In
the most violent demonstration, about 100 people threw stones and a
firebomb at the British Embassy in Tehran, damaging the building but
harming nobody as they accused Britain and the United States of being
accomplices in Israel's fight against Hezbollah, a Shiite group in
Lebanon that is backed by Persian Iran
Even Sunni Muslim demonstrators took to the streets of Damascus,
Cairo and Amman. But their numbers were dwarfed by the huge Shiite
turnout in Baghdad, organized by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
Crowds of al-Sadr supporters from across
Crowds of al-Sadr supporters from across Iraq's Shiite heartland converged on the capital's Sadr City district, chanting "Death to Israel, Death to America" in the biggest pro-Hezbollah rally since the conflict began July 12." name="context" />
Iraq's
Shiite heartland converged on the capital's Sadr City district,
chanting "Death to Israel, Death to America" in the biggest
pro-Hezbollah rally since the conflict began July 12.
Demonstrators, wearing white shrouds symbolizing willingness to die
for Hezbollah, waved the guerrillas' banner and chanted slogans in
support of their leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah.
"Allah, Allah, give victory to Hassan Nasrallah," the crowd chanted before burning Israeli and American flags.
Organizers and local police said hundreds of thousands attended the
rally, but the U.S. military later estimated the crowd at 14,000.
Associated Press reporters at the scene thought attendance was at least
in the tens of thousands during the high point of the march.
The rally went off peacefully — a remarkable achievement in a city
where bombings and shootings are an everyday occurrence. Sadr City is
under the effective control of the cleric's Mahdi Army militia, which
maintains its own security network.
I thought this story was wrapped up and the verdict in, but apparently not:
All
of you who have been following the news coming out of the
Israel/Hezbollah conflict have by now heard of the controversy over
Israel's attack on a rocket site near a building in Qana, Lebanon.
Since that attack occurred there has been a seemingly endless string of
images showing wreckage and dead bodies, all purportedly caused by the
Israeli attacks.
In the past there has been some suggestive, though not conclusive, evidence
that would seem to indicate that some of the wreckage and dead bodies
may have been caused by Hezbollah for propaganda purposes.
Today Israel Insider has more evidence, this time suggesting that
the bodies in question weren't necessarily of people who were in the
building when Israel attacked.
Israeli air strikes cut off Beirut and divide Lebanon San Jose Mercury News -1 hour ago By
Hannah Allam and Matthew Schofield. BEIRUT, Lebanon - Israel expanded
its air campaign against Lebanon on Friday in an apparent effort to
prevent Hezbollah from receiving new supplies from Syria and Iran. ...
Jets drop leaflets in Beirut warning residents of three Shiite neighborhoods to flee | Video | Photo Essay
BOURJ AL-MULOUK, Lebanon — Hezbollah
rockets fired into northern Israel killed eight civilians on Thursday
as four Israeli soldiers were killed in ground operations inside
Lebanon in the deadliest day of violence for Israel.
The Israeli casualties came as senior officials said Defense Minister Amir Peretz
told top army officers to push ahead to the Litani River to secure an
18-mile buffer zone and leaflets were dropped in Beirut warning
residents of three Shiite neighborhoods to flee.
In the town of Acre, three adults and a child were killed when a rocket hit a group of people standing on their balcony, Mayor Shimon Lankry told Israel's Channel 2 Television. In Maalot, three people were killed when a rocket struck a car, police said.
Since
the fighting started, 67 Israelis have been killed, 40 of them soldiers
slain in fighting and 27 of them civilians killed in rocket attacks.
More
than 180 rockets, which cannot be guided like missiles, were fired
across the border, with almost 100 of them being launched within one
half-hour period, according to Israeli police. The barrage came a day
after Hezbollah launched a record 210 rockets into Israel.
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