Photoshop and the news///
Search the web for “Adnan Hajj” and you’ll get plenty of reading on doctored news photos making their way into mainstream media. In this case, Reuters published a very obviously Photoshoped image.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. If an image is worth a thousand words, there seems to be no lack of people trying to increase the count to 2000, 3000…
Here’s another article:on Honest Reporting:
“On September 30, 2000, The New York Times, Associated Press and other major media outlets published a photo of a young man—bloodied and battered—crouching beneath a club-wielding Israeli policeman. The caption identified him as a Palestinian victim of the recent riots—with the clear implication that the Israeli soldier is the one who beat him.
The victim’s true identity was revealed when Dr. Aaron Grossman of Chicago sent the following letter to the Times: “Regarding your picture on page A5 of the Israeli soldier and the Palestinian on the Temple Mount—that Palestinian is actually my son, Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago. He, and two of his friends, were pulled from their taxicab while traveling in Jerusalem, by a mob of Palestinian Arabs, and were severely beaten and stabbed.
That picture could not have been taken on the Temple Mount because there are no gas stations on the Temple Mount and certainly none with Hebrew lettering, like the one clearly seen behind the Israeli soldier attempting to protect my son from the mob.”
And another (Hajj again)...
Who can you trust? Your local newspaper relies on media aggregators and distributors like Reuters. Worse, in cases like the NY Time being caight red-handed, corrections and retractions are made with the enthusiasm of a frozen fish stick. With luck you’ll catch it – in 5 points type at teh bottom of page 133…
Orwell’s vision is alive and well.