Oops, they did it again

[Christine]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/te...pagewanted=all

The New York Times

Bloggers Drive Inquiry on How Altered Images Saw Print


As of yesterday afternoon, Adnan Hajj was the most-searched term on the Technorati Web site, which tracks what is being discussed in the blogosphere. And a rendering of his work was one of the most viewed videos on YouTube.

Mr. Hajj, a Lebanese photographer based in the Middle East, may not be familiar to many newspaper readers. But thanks to the swift justice of the Internet, he has been charged, tried and convicted of improperly altering photographs he took for Reuters. The pictures ran on the Reuters news service on Saturday, and were discovered almost instantly by bloggers to have been manipulated. Reuters then announced on Sunday that it had fired the freelancer. Executives said yesterday that they were still investigating why they had not discovered the manipulation before the pictures were disseminated to newspapers.

The matter has created an uproar on the Internet, where many bloggers see an anti-Israel bias in Mr. Hajj’s manipulations, which made the damage from Israeli strikes into Beirut appear worse than the original pictures had. One intensified and replicated plumes of smoke from smoldering debris. In another, he changed an image of an Israeli plane to make it look as if it had dropped three flares instead of one.

[Christine]

Downer accuses media of Lebanon hoax

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...73-601,00.html

But journalists' reporting of the conflict also came under fire from the Foreign Minister.

He accused "some of the world's most prestigious media outlets" of falling for a hoax in their reporting of an alleged aerial attack on a Lebanese Red Cross ambulance by Israel.

"After closer study of the images of the damage to the ambulance, it is beyond serious dispute that this episode has all the makings of a hoax," Mr Downer said.

"Yet some of the world's most prestigious media outlets, including some of those represented here today (Monday), ran that story as fact - unchallenged, unquestioned."


http://www.zombietime.com/fraud/ambulance/

[Nelson]

Che sorpresa, no?

Il rapporto di Amnesty International:

Amnesty sul conflitto in Libano.

[Christine]

http://www.aei.org/publications/filt...pub_detail.asp

"A Lebanese man counts U.S dollar bills received from Hizbollah members in a school in Bourj el-Barajneh, a southern suburb of Beirut, August 19, 2006. Hizbollah handed out bundles of cash on Friday to people whose homes were wrecked by Israeli bombing, consolidating the Iranian-backed group's support among Lebanon's Shiites and embarrassing the Beirut government. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (LEBANON)"

This scene and dozens more like it flashed around the planet. Only one thing was missing--the thin wire security strip that runs from top to bottom of a genuine US$100 bill. The money Hezbollah was passing was counterfeit, as should have been evident to anybody who studied the photographs with due care.

[Christine]

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/200...ht-in-act.html

[Christine]

Amnesty International

[Nelson]

http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/200...ht-in-act.html

Ma cosa cerchi di dimostrare? Che Israele non ha distrutto tutte le infrastrutture civili del Libano e non ha colpito prevalentemente e deliberatamente i civili? Oppure intendi attribuirne la responsabilità ai lapidatori del bambino che essendo dei barbari hanno giustificato la distruzione di un altro paese e la sistematica violazione dei diritti umani nei territori occupati?
Guarda che con un ragionamento del piffero come questo la lotta contro l'apartheid sarebbe stata ingiusta a causa della pratica dei burning collars.
Ed infatti proprio a quella si appellavano i difensori del regime razzista per dimostrare che non bisognava concedere i diritti di cittadinanza ai neri.

[Nelson]

Appunto. Amnesty (i fatti) contro Christine (la propaganda)

[Christine]

Appunto. Amnesty (i fatti) contro Christine (la propaganda)

Amnesty International e' conoscuito per la sua propaganda.

[Nelson]

Amnesty International e' conoscuito per la sua propaganda.

Quale? Quella capitalista e filoccidentale (fonte KGB)?

La tua prossima battuta quale sarà? Che i neri odiano i bianchi? Che i comunisti mangiano i bambini? Che tutti sanno che gli immigrati vogliono colonizzarci? Che tutti gli arabi sono assassini?