Bob,

Well, as unethical as all those are, they were not passed off as “unbiased journalism.”

Point is it’s all Yellow.

al Reuters has come clean:

Reuters news agency admitted on Sunday that one of its photographers had digitally altered a photograph of an Israeli attack on Lebanon on Saturday, showing more smoke than was actually present.

The photograph, as initially published, showed an aerial view of Beirut after an IAF attack, with two large pillars of smoke rising over the city. The caption read: Smoke billows from burning buildings destroyed during an overnight Israeli air raid on Beirut’s suburbs.

The agency has since withdrawn the photograph, issued an apology and released the unaltered picture. Its public relations department said the photographer had been suspended until the investigation was completed.

rbb: If by “Pres”, you are referring to Clinton, you are absolutely right. Otherwise, you are full of poop, as usual.

Oh, I’m sorry.
Maybe I should have asked where to buy DVD’s or something.

Beth said, IGNORE Chimpy. That f’n retard is going around spamming all the blogs with the same comment.

Ahhh. So he’s spamming and trying to sell us a line of certifiable bullshit. Sounds like a good candidate for an IP ban. He certainly fits into the “spammer” definition.

“realitybased”bob stutters, Aaahh, no.

Then how come every time something bad about Hezbollah comes up, all you can focus on is Bush or the Republicans?

Why do you hate America?

Don’t be stupid, just answer my question.

“Give me Liberty or give me death”
Patrick Henry

Merely an unconscious defensive reaction on his part, Rob.

He probably didn’t even realize he did it.

Rob,
Where can I buy the following dvd’s
Relentless- the movie, and Obsession-What the war on terror is all about.

Hey, it’s Fraser’s brother…and he is saying negative things about me!

In my own way, I try to keep another perspective on this gop table. The RNC, the DoD, the good Senator and yes even the current President, all use the media to catapult the propaganda, as The Decider is fond of saying. I attempted to ride the over arching curve to connect all media propaganda and how all of it should be fact checked. Perhaps I should have used more words. If anyone here might cotton to the notion that the RNC ad or the photo shopped bush ad is not MEDIA, guess again. Control the image / control the public.

Note please that I did call all of it, whoever has done it, as wrong.

I find it funny that all “realitybased”bob can engage in is a silly tit-for-tat. It’s almost like he’s trying to obfuscate the issue here.

Oh, I’m sorry.
Maybe I should have asked where to buy DVD’s or something.

Bob,

I’m giving you an opprotunity to make your case and your dodging the issue.

(ya see how I cleverly photoshopped the word press?)

I can’t believe anyone fell for this attempt by Chuckles the Clown to bash the MSM.
Here is the link to the site CJ got the info and images from.
http://www.leftandright.us/index.php/site/reuters_faking_photos/

Read my analysis and take a look at the images again.

In this small 4.5 x 3 inch(my screen@1024×768) photo the right hand column of smoke appears cloned but not when blown up. On the original photo right click and select “save image as” to your desktop so you can find it. It’s called “reutersfake.bmp”. Open with a pic viewer and increase magnification to 200%, 300% and 400%. You will see that the patterns in the 2 columns of smoke do not repeat, are not the same or cloned. It is a coincidence that happens also with clouds and is magnified because of the small image. Fine detail is lost.

And you are being faked out by the second photo which is a 2 frame animated gif image. This is the image that was fraudulently manipulated and not the original. The second, “sharpened” frame is actually cloned from another area of the pic by the person that produced this animated gif image.

Look at the second frame of the gif image which has a supposed sharpened version of that area in the original. When sharpened, look at the building that slopes down on the left hand side, in the extreme bottom right corner of the sharpened area. It looks like the same building just slightly to the left at the bottom of the original. In the original that area is a blur and when sharpened the brights and darks don’t mach up. Now look above the spot of that sloped building in the original, and notice the bright building above, lining up with the right side of that building with the slope. Look at the brightness of that building in the original and how that building disappears in the sharpened version. That building should also be sharper and brighter. It shouldn’t just disappear altogether. When sharpened you can still make out the extreme right side of that building in the original area out side the sharpened area. But in the sharpened portion 90% of that building is missing.

The building to the left of the building with the slope is suspect. On the back of the right side at the roof of that building see how the bright spot appears and disappears, ditto for the bright spot 1 floor down the building from roof area bright spot. If you sharpen, bright areas get brighter and dark areas get darker.
Also this building is shifting slightly left and right between the 2 frames. Put your curser on an edge to see this shift.

Granted this building looks similar to the one below and to the left in the original. Have you ever seen pics of Cabrini Green housing complex in Chicago. Row after row of the same buildings. There are buildings in any big city in the US that are exactly the same built by the same developer. Back in the early 80′s when the USS New Jersey was shelling the Muslim section of Beirut the pics of the area bombed looked like Cabrini Green only on a hillside. If this is repeated clones the building that slopes off to the left should have as much detail as the building to it’s left, in the original, because it is so bright. And that disappearing building should show below. But you only see that building once in the original

Now look at the bottom left corner of the second “sharpened image and look how the smoke just disappears from the original. In that area of the second “sharpened frame, you see a building with no smoke in front of the top of that building like there should be, sharpened or not.

Look at the left had column of smoke. In the original it is contiguous. In the sharpened frame it is separated on the right side and you can see through it. Also notice how the edges of the smoke shift in the second “sharpened” frame. Notice the shape of the smoke, that touches the left edge of the pic, rising from the buildings in the bottom left corner. Then look at the smoke at the top left of the sharpened image. Notice how the shape changes. And in the sharpened frame it looks exactly like the smoke I mentioned before at the bottom that’s touching the left edge of the pic.

If you look hard you will see a few other tell tale signs of manipulation of the published original.

Looking at this animated gif produce by the propagandist, my image viewer shows the masked area that was copied by this person.

The propagandist copied the buildings from the bottom left of the pic and pasted (cloned) them higher and to the right. Then they reduced the size to make it proportional for the further distance were it was pasted. Then used the blur tool on the clone that they pasted.

People will do anything or believe anything that advances the “dishonest” MSM meme.

Ralph…Have you ever seen the movie The Fires Of Kuwait? Everyone should see what Saddam did… I cried.

dats some dang bad gramer I jus done did

http://www.honestreporting.com/relentless/new_version/

I’m as pro-Israel as they come, but count me among those who are completely unsurprised by this revelation. I agree, Rob, that this not something about which we should be nonchalant, but there’s a reason why I have pretty much given up on the MSM as being any more reliable than the blogosphere of which the MSM is so critical. In fact, as time has march on, it has proven to be much less so.

Reuters in particular is a fraud and joke, and that is about the nicest comments I can make. This is an organization that STILL can’t bring itself to call terrorists by their proper name. Then again, from that organization’s deluded point of view, anyone who kills American or Jews (double bonus points if you kill someone who meets both criterion!) is by definition NOT a terrorist.

Ken in the post: Look at this disgusting display of media bias.

Realityboob in the comments: Um…LOOK OVER HERE REPUBLICANS ARE STINKY!!!

Ralph,

Obsession can be purchased here.

As for Relentless, I haven’t heard of that one.

Free,

Sorry, Spanish American War.

What difference does it make?

I said if “I’m not mistaken.”

I don’t know about you, but I think being accurate is important rather than shooting your mouth off about things you clearly don’t understand. Sort of like our discussion about Wal-Mart the other day.

Point is it’s all Yellow.

That doesn’t mean we should get nonchalant about it.

Well put, Zsa Zsa.