The Reliable Media UPDATED Again

August 6th, 2006 | by Todd W |

Reuters gets caught posting a Photoshop picture of the ‘damage’ caused by them Joos in Beirut. Sad story here.

As you read through the link, you’ll find that the photo was submitted by a ’stringer’ - an independent submitting news on the ground reports to Reuters. In this case, one Adnan Hajj. This goes on a lot, and it is the responsibility of Reuters to review these reports before passing them on to the public.

So one slipped through? I can buy that.

However, as of 9:24 AM on Sunday, the photo is still on the Reuters site.

How many other ‘fake’ news items make their way to publication? I’m just asking.

UPDATE - Allah has more.

ANOTHER UPDATE - Speaking of LGF and Reuters, here’s some older, but relevant, news.

Also, Reuters has pulled the photo and suspended the photographer. Follow the comments below for linkage. Chimpy might want to call Reuters and tell them they are making a mistake.

YET ANOTHER UPDATE - Chimpy has been carpetbombing the Blogosphere with the comment he left here. Protein Wisdom has it verbatim. A little more searching reveals he’s been banned in the past at LGF. He’s welcome to stick around here and comment though - I’ll be glad to take LGF’s trash.

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By Chimpy on Aug 6, 2006 | Reply

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.
By Todd W on Aug 6, 2006 | Reply

If this is some big propaganda job by LGF, why did Reuters just correct the photo? Why do that if none of this was faked?

Or why suspend the photographer or admit that the photo was edited to add smoke and damage?

Or is the Reuters announcement more propaganda?

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