Photo fraud related to conflicts in Middle East?

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Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
The worst thing is that the Photoshopping is so amateurish.

As soon as I saw it I knew it was a fake. I'm surprised Reuters got conned.

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Originally posted by MrFun
Why were some of those Bosnian Muslims starving? Such as the one in the picture, without the shirt, who appears to be nothing but skin and bones?

He was sick is my understanding.

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Originally posted by MrFun
Why were some of those Bosnian Muslims starving? Such as the one in the picture, without the shirt, who appears to be nothing but skin and bones?

Its not 'some', but one. His name is Fikret Alic and as Che said - he had been ill. TB I think. The ITN journalists found him and made him stand there to make people think "omg, teh evil Serbs are Nazis, starving their victims".

There is a video, shot by Serbian TV, which shows the ITN journalists crawling into the enclosed compound within the unwalled, unfenced refugee transit camp getting the thin bloke to pose for the cameras, to create the impression of starving victims behind barbed wire.

For their fraudulent behaviour the Journalists won major awards - which is of course why they faked it in the first place. When a UK magazine exposed them the magazine was successfuly sued for libel and bankrupted & closed down because, the journos claimed, they did not do it deliberately but instead 'accidently' crawled into the compound and 'accidently' created the impression that the Bosnian Serbs were running WW2-style death camps. Because the magazine could not prove what the journalists were thinking, they were screwed by the court even though the court accepted that the photos & TV footage were misleading.

British libel law is notoriously skewed to the 'offendee', which is why there are so many libel tourists here trying to gag whoever they want to shut up. I gather the laws here are quite shocking to those used to the free speech allowed by the US constitution for example.

[MrFun]

thanks for the info, Cort

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Re: Photo fraud related to conflicts in Middle East?

Originally posted by MrFun
When I watched and listened to the video from this site, I was stunned.

Photo fraud?

I've seen this on other web sites. It is mostly the result of local Lebonese photographers behaving unethically.

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Here's a great film hosted by youtube. It's called "Pallywood" and documents the outright fraud and lies which are the NORM and not the exception Palestinian "journalists".

Judging by the huge amounts of fraudulent photos generated by Lebanonese "journalists" it seems that lies and fraud are staples of Arab news agencies.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=t_B1H-1opys

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The Massacre at Qana" is an excellent example of this type of lies. First the claim was 40 dead and injured, then it was 100 dead and injured, and then it was 130 dead and injured. The only problem is no one was actually hurt in any way. It was all just a lie and it was all just faked with the help of Arab camera men working for western news agencies.

I for one don't take anything that comes out the middle east at face value. The Arabs just lie to often to ever trust what they say.

[MrFun]

thanks, Oerdin