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chillbilly
08-09-2006, 09:26 AM
From http://www.in-opinion.com

Reuters has fired a longtime Lebanese freelance photographer for altering photos of Israeli attacks on Lebanon to make the damage look worse.
The fracas exposes a wider problem.
Much of the global media depends on networks of local freelancers in dangerous places to produce images of war and famine.
Unfortunately, those folks don't necessarily subscribe to our sense of journalistic ethics.
Quite naturally, living so close to death and destruction, they might be tempted to take sides.
The result is propoganda in our daily papers.
keither
08-09-2006, 11:49 PM
Now it looks like the fraud has spread to Reuters, U.S. News and World Report and the New York Times.

http://www.zombietime.com/reuters_photo_fraud/

Pictures and analysis above. Looks like a dozen or more pictures were doctored for propaganda and discovered so far.
RoBoTeq
08-10-2006, 12:34 AM
It's called yellow journalism and has been around in one shape or another since man first drew on cave walls.

American journalist ethics? This is a joke, right?
chillbilly
08-10-2006, 02:47 PM
and it's a cruel joke being inflicted on everyone who reads just about anything in the daily newspapers and mags.
keither
08-12-2006, 01:54 PM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/m5todd/NYT_BinLaden.gif
geerair
08-12-2006, 02:18 PM
Don't even need to buy a copy of the NYT.

The Bush administration leaks all manner of info including CIA agents, covert operations, intelligence data, ongoing investigations and other info for free.

Be patient and Bush and Cheney will declassify it for you in order to score politcal points.


Of course, the only leaks that they consider bad leaks are the ones that catch them in embarrassing and even criminal activities.
bootlen
08-12-2006, 02:32 PM
Originally posted by geerair
Don't even need to buy a copy of the NYT.

The Bush administration leaks all manner of info including CIA agents, covert operations, intelligence data, ongoing investigations and other info for free.

Be patient and Bush and Cheney will declassify it for you in order to score politcal points.


Of course, the only leaks that they consider bad leaks are the ones that catch them in embarrassing and even criminal activities.



Bwaaaahahahahaha! All that has been traced to the accusers! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
geerair
08-12-2006, 05:38 PM
Originally posted by bootlen

Bwaaaahahahahaha! All that has been traced to the accusers! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! [/B]All Bush and Cheney.


What is sad is that their leaks were motivated by petty political whims.
chillbilly
08-12-2006, 06:10 PM
Oh jeez. It's the talking snake again.
acmanko
08-13-2006, 11:05 AM
better run and hide little vermin
Special Ed
08-13-2006, 02:24 PM
Originally posted by chillbilly
Reuters has fired a longtime Lebanese freelance photographer

How can you "fire" a freelance photographer? Freelance means he sells his pics to the highest bidder & he's beholden to no one.
oloenneker
08-13-2006, 08:08 PM
Originally posted by Special Ed

Originally posted by chillbilly
Reuters has fired a longtime Lebanese freelance photographer

How can you "fire" a freelance photographer? Freelance means he sells his pics to the highest bidder & he's beholden to no one.

I was wondering that myself. Sounds like someone does not have their facts straight.
acmanko
08-13-2006, 08:37 PM
Just plain dofus