Lebanon - Reuters admits second photo fake

I haven't seen it yet but it's being reported that Reuters is admitting that a second photo of theirs was doctored. The Jawa Report has more.

Which brings into question the rest of Reuters reporting and images from Lebanon.

UPDATE

DFH emails this link and photo of Reuters latest admission.



Here's the caption.

ATTENTION EDITORS: As a precautionary measure, Reuters has decided to withdraw all photos taken by freelancer Adnan Hajj after discovering in the last 24 hours that he altered two photographs since the beginning of the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hizbollah. The first, a photograph of the aftermath of an Israeli air strike on Beirut which ran on Aug. 6, 2006, was withdrawn yesterday. At that point, Reuters terminated its relationship with this freelancer and began an investigation into all his work. Subsequently a second altered photograph was identified, of an Israeli F-16 warplane in action over Lebanon that ran on Aug. 2, 2006. Reuters has tightened its editing procedure for photographs of the conflict and regrets any inconvenience caused.

It's looking more and more likely that Reuters did in fact stage other photos as alleged.

What a difference bloggers have made. The world would be none the wiser about the media's fakes if not for us.

UPDATE

Powerline notes that Reuters has been caught in the past "staging photos" to fabricate a story.

With more and more doctored photos and stage ones, Reuters is going to have to rethink the scope of their investigation - we bloggers certainly have.

Here's a link to a lot of Hajj's photos. Might be handy in doing some investigating.

It will be interesting to hear Reuters explanation for this second photo. In the first it was claimed Hajj was trying to remove some dirt from the photo. Adding flares to the second one isn't going to be so easy to explain away.
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