Reutersgate

[Dis]

Do we have no thread on this? Or did I miss it. . Apparantly the media is publishing false pictures. Although I suppose this isn't really news. But it should be. Why do we have to accept biased media like this?

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1154525850241&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Yeah I know, this article is from a newspaper that is probably biased as well. Either left or right, they are all ****ed up.

[BlackCat]

Yeah, it's a messed up world - soon we probably can't even trust what we find on the web

[Datajack Franit]

Maybe she just lost several homes

[Darius871]

This flash video sums up some of the more flagrant cases pretty well, for anyone interested.
















(Yeah yeah yeah I know aish.com isn't a damn paragon of objectivity itself, but the photos speak for themselves.)

[DanS]

Rathergate was a bigger scalp for the bloggers, but LGF at least gets a feather in its cap for this. It demonstrates the need for a critical eye from all readers. Over the last 3 or 4 years, the mainstream media has been taking a big credibility hit, but not only because of the increased scrutiny of bloggers.

I think that the journalism business is very fast paced and some journalists cut corners in order to make it work for them. It's good that this stuff is being exposed.

[Darius871]

@ the OP article:

That photograph, which was discovered by blogger Rusty Shackleford of The Jawa Report, included an illustrated account of how the photos had been doctored.

[RGBVideo]

This has been going on for like the last five years during all the wars, for and against all the sides. Yeah, you can't trust pictures anymore, most of us realised it a while ago. Nothing new here.

[NeOmega]

I don't need pictures to tell me 1000+ Lebanese civilians killed is disproportionate response.

The staging of props is dishonest.

[Chemical Ollie]

The guy who did this:

1) Sucks at Photoshop
2) Didn't succeed to improve the dramatics of the pictures very much
3) Was fired from Reuters after beeing busted

No big deal.

[NeOmega]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie


3) Was fired from Reuters after beeing busted

No big deal.

qft