cossie
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Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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... but according to a BBC report a week or so ago, Reuters had investigated a complaint about the first photograph in the video (the excessive smoke over Beirut) and had then reviewed all previous work by that photographer. Several other 'enhanced' pictures were identified, details were made public, and the photographer was dismissed.
To me, the surprising thing is the banality of it all. The pristine childrens toys in the midst of carnage are so obviously posed. Even the smoke enhancement was hurried and amateurish. The same photographer was responsible for the photo showing missile trails against a blue sky - there was only one trail in the original photograph, and the trails were cloned in large and obvious chunks. With current technology, photographs can be manipulated in ways which are virtually impossible to detect, so if the perpetrators were truly propogandists, rather than dishonest photograhers trying to make an extra buck, I'd have expected them to achieve higher standards.
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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