Reuters editing photos of armed militants to Israel's detriment

[NonConformist]

Im shocked!-

Reuters crops out knives, blood from raid photos

American blog exposes two pictures initially issued by IHH group, later distributed by British news agency and cropped to conceal pool of blood, knives held by 'peace activists'

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 97,00.html

Ynet Published: 06.08.10, 08:17 / Israel News
British news agency Reuters has cropped out knives and blood traces from at least two photos distributed by the IHH organization and showing the Navy raid on the Gaza-bound Marmara ship, the "Little Green Footballs" blog claimed.

Photos released by Turkish daily Hurriyet were distributed to foreign media by the news agencies. While Associated Press issued the photos untouched, Reuters cut the pictures thereby concealing the image of one of the boat's assailants holding a knife as well as a pool of blood.

"That’s a very interesting way to crop the photo," the blog stated. "Most people would consider that knife an important part of the context. Cropping out a knife, in a picture showing a soldier who’s apparently been stabbed, seems like a very odd editorial decision. Unless someone was trying to hide it."
In a later post, the blog shows a second photo which appeared to have been cropped as well. In this case too a knife held by one of the attackers was edited out.

"Now we have two pictures from the 'peace activists' that were cropped by someone at Reuters to remove knives in the hands of the activists, as they attempted to take soldiers hostage," the blog noted.
In response Reuters stressed that they did not intentionally edit the photos but innocently cut them in way that left the margins out. The agency also removed the photos from its server and replaced them with the pictures in their original form.

This is not the first instance in which Reuters has been found tampering with pictures. During the Second Lebanon War the news agency admitted to graphically editing a picture of Lebanon and adding in smoke above the houses shown. The Little Green Footballs blog exposed the matter in that case too.
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Did Reuters Crop a Photo to Remove a Peace Activist's Weapon?
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article ... sts_Weapon

"Cropping out a knife, in a picture showing a soldier who’s apparently been stabbed, seems like a very odd editorial decision.
Unless someone was trying to hide it."

Another Cropped Reuters Photo Deletes Another Knife - And a Pool of Blood
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article ... l_of_Blood

"And it gets worse. I took the photo into Photoshop and increased the exposure to lighten the dark areas, and discovered that they didn’t just crop out the knife and blood — they also cropped out another badly injured Israeli soldier lying on the floor."

[Nightfighter89]

Kinda like the time that msnbc cropped out the neck and hands of a black man at a tea party who had an AR-15 on his back, so that they could use the video clip while talking about how they think it's a white supremacist movement.

[Master Chief]

Unbiased journalism my ass.

[Dag]

Originally Posted by Nightfighter89

Kinda like the time that msnbc cropped out the neck and hands of a black man at a tea party who had an AR-15 on his back, so that they could use the video clip while talking about how they think it's a white supremacist movement.

holy shit...I remember that!! They were accusing them of being rednecks, etc...all the while, the dude in the pic was a black man... (rhetorical)...I wonder why the MSM failed to make the correction on that

[Dag]

to hell with Reuters... the Congress should pass a law (of one of the few times I would agree with laws like this) that stated that no 'news' (more like BS) agency that does tactics like this can sit on the White House news corps... maybe when they are stripped of their privileges... they'll pay better attention to the truth.

[Dr. Madd]

In a sane world, these "Journalists" Would have their FCC license taken away, their place of business raided and their equipment smashed.

[Nightfighter89]

Originally Posted by Dag

holy shit...I remember that!! They were accusing them of being rednecks, etc...all the while, the dude in the pic was a black man... (rhetorical)...I wonder why the MSM failed to make the correction on that

I was raging over that to everyone that would listen for days.