Blatant Press Dishonesty Staring You In The Face
Check out this graphic lie and pro-Hezbollah propaganda photo, published by Reuters:
Apparently Reuters does not consider an unaltered picture of Beirut quite 'exciting' enough, and so they decided to make it a little more sexy by clumsily using a clone tool to make it look a bit more grim.
Their tacky Photoshop skillz are most apparent in the plumes of smoke, which have repeating identical patterns. Charles Johnson points out other examples of duplication at LGF.
It is such a bad job, it should insult your intelligence.
I keep saying this, but it needs repeating: always presume that the press is lying to you, serving some agenda other than the truth. Only when something is proven conclusively true from many sources should you even think about believing it.
Update by Rob:
LGF is now concluding that this is an obvious fraud, and I agree. Hot Air has more.
Of course, this isn't the first time Reuters has been caught photoshopping.
Update by Rob:
Guy who took the blatantly photoshopped photo above? Adnan Hajj. Guy who took some of those pictures in Qana that look suspiciously as though they were staged (posts about that here, here and here)? Adnan Hajj.
Coincidence? I don't think so.
Update by Rob:
Here's another photoshop you might see coming down the pipe from Reuters soon.
Crossposted from WILLisms.com
Update by likwidshoe:
Reuters admits that the photo is fake. The supposed real photo.
Apparently Reuters does not consider an unaltered picture of Beirut quite 'exciting' enough, and so they decided to make it a little more sexy by clumsily using a clone tool to make it look a bit more grim.
Their tacky Photoshop skillz are most apparent in the plumes of smoke, which have repeating identical patterns. Charles Johnson points out other examples of duplication at LGF.
It is such a bad job, it should insult your intelligence.
I keep saying this, but it needs repeating: always presume that the press is lying to you, serving some agenda other than the truth. Only when something is proven conclusively true from many sources should you even think about believing it.
Update by Rob:
LGF is now concluding that this is an obvious fraud, and I agree. Hot Air has more.
Of course, this isn't the first time Reuters has been caught photoshopping.
Update by Rob:
Guy who took the blatantly photoshopped photo above? Adnan Hajj. Guy who took some of those pictures in Qana that look suspiciously as though they were staged (posts about that here, here and here)? Adnan Hajj.
Coincidence? I don't think so.
Update by Rob:
Here's another photoshop you might see coming down the pipe from Reuters soon.
Crossposted from WILLisms.com
Update by likwidshoe:
Reuters admits that the photo is fake. The supposed real photo.
