Thread: Fake war photo's

Blogs have been reporting these forever, finally hitting mainstream news. Once again Rueters uses faked photo's

http://www.aish.com/movies/PhotoFraud.asp

http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/1...hammer-damage/

http://www.rightwinged.com/2006/08/r...different.html (yes I know this is a far right blog, but the pictures were posted in the mainstream news. I got this link through http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php )

I brought this up in the thread over in OT ( http://forums.bigbigsavings.com/show...7&page=4&pp=15 )

Appearently no one else thought it was note worthy.





"Fauxtography"
It's all in the framing
By Michelle Malkin · August 08, 2006


Here's a relevant flashback to Feb. 2004. Scene of an anguished Palestinian woman:


http://michellemalkin.com/archives/images/photoop.jpg

Now look at the photo from a different angle:


http://michellemalkin.com/archives/i...photoop002.jpg

Big hat tip to Charles Johnson for the perfect new term: "Fauxtography."

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/webl...phy_Watch&only


MSM Fauxtography Watch ?

Some more possible evidence of MSM fauxtography at OpinionJournal.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110008766

And at Hot Air: Another bogus photo?
http://hotair.com/archives/the-blog/...r-bogus-photo/

Case study number one: The NYTimes and the Lebanese pieta



http://michellemalkin.com/archives/images/nytpieta.jpg

Take a close look at the above photo. (Pay close attention to his shorts, his dustless chest, muscular torso, the dust on his hands, and the hat tucked in the crook of his arm.) You've probably seen the image before. It was part of a NYTimes photo essay series published online here. It's an iconic image of Lebanese death at the hands of Israel--even described as the Lebanese pieta. The caption accompanying the photo:

The mayor of Tyre said that in the worst hit areas, bodies were still buried under the rubble, and he appealed to the Israelis to allow government authorities time to pull them out. (Photo Tyler Hicks The New York Times)

Only guess what? The body depicted "buried under the rubble" appears to have been up and walking in the photographer's photo series of the scene throughout the day as a rescuer, not a bombing victim. Jim Hoft is all over it. http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/20...hezbollah.html Allah is on it. http://hotair.com/archives/the-blog/...r-bogus-photo/


Take a look and tell me what you think:

Slide 2:



http://michellemalkin.com/archives/images/nyt2.jpg

Slide 3:



http://michellemalkin.com/archives/images/nyt3.jpg

Slide 4:



http://michellemalkin.com/archives/images/nyt4.jpg

Silde 6:



http://michellemalkin.com/archives/images/nyt6.jpg

Judging from his clothes, his body, his unique dusted hands, and his hat, it seems like the same man in all of the above slides. Did the pole fall on him in the last slide? Maybe. But that's certainly not what the caption about "bodies buried under rubble" as a result of an Israeli airstrike implies.

Or, as Ace asks: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/189873.php

"Did he collapse from heat exhaustion? Or did the director here simply decided the production was long on rescuers and short on corpses?"

Ask the Times....


Wow. The Passion of the Toys.

http://www.slublog.com/archives/2006...assion_of.html

In Platoon, Oliver Stone said the first casualty of war is innocence.

He was wrong.

As the photos here show, the first casualties of war are...the symbols of innocence. And photographers from Reuters and the AP just happened upon many of these perfectly placed symbols of war's horrors.


[IMG]http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...3577351291.jpg[/IMG]






Feel the pathos. Mourn for these oh-so-photogenic and suspiciously dust-free trinkets of childhood.

Just don't ask any questions about their veracity.

That would be wrong.

Jolie....a lot of your links don't work.

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/images/nytpieta.jpg This is the link that doesn't work the rest worked fine for me. Here's another link some of you may get a kick out of.link
I gotta get me one of these.

LOL @ stresseater


Fauxtography: The media scandal continues
By Michelle Malkin
Wednesday, August 16, 2006


It's the story that the journalistic elite would rather just go away. In the aftermath of Reuters' admission that one of its photographers, Adnan Hajj, had manipulated two war images from Lebanon after bloggers smoked out his crude Photoshop alterations, and all 920 of his Reuters photos were pulled, evidence of far more troubling photo staging and media deception in the Middle East continues to pour in.

Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs (littlegreenfootballs.com) calls it "fauxtography."


Reuters on Sunday withdrew an image of smoke rising from burning buildings after an Israeli air strike on the suburbs of Beirut on August 5, 2006 after evidence emerged that it had been manipulated to show more smoke. The manipulated image is shown on the left. The unaltered image, shown on the right, has since run. Reuters has told the photographer, freelance Adnan Hajj, that the agency will not use any more of his pictures One of Hajj's photos was an iconic image of a dusty dead child with a clean blue pacifier clipped to his shirt, paraded by a corpse handler at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Qana, Lebanon. Mainstream journalists have sneered at bloggers' suspicions, first raised at EU Referendum (eureferendum.blogspot.com), that some of the gruesome photos from that scene may have been staged. Washington Post photographer Michael Robinson-Chavez, who was at Qana, huffed: "Everyone was dead, many of them children. Nothing was set up." But last week, a German television station aired damning video footage from the scene showing a lead propaganda director (dubbed the "Green Helmet Guy") positioning a young boy's corpse, yanking it from an ambulance, placing it on two different stretchers for the cameras and pushing bystanders out of the way for clearer shots.

This Lebanese version of horror film director Wes Craven was identified by the Associated Press in a softball profile as "Salam Daher," who told the reporter, "I am just a civil defense worker. I have done this job all my life." To clear-eyed readers, that's an inculpatory statement, not an exculpatory one. How many more "jobs" has Daher overseen? And how many more media stage managers like Daher are out there?

Not all photographers overseas have their heads in the sand. Last week, Middle East-based photographer Bryan Denton, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, revealed on the professional photography website Light Stalkers (lightstalkers.org) that he had observed routine staging of photos -- and even corpse-digging -- by Lebanese stringers:

"[I] have been witness to the daily practice of directed shots, one case where a group of wire photogs were choreographing the unearthing of bodies, directing emergency workers here and there, asking them to position bodies just so, even remove bodies that have already been put in graves so that they can photograph them in people[']s arms."

Denton noted that he had witnessed the photo choreography at numerous protests and evacuations, as well as at an Israeli airstrike location in Chiyeh, Lebanon. Denton followed up with a second post reporting that respected photographer friends of his in Lebanon informed him that "this was not an isolated incident" and that "this has been something [I]'ve noticed happening here, more than any other place [I]'ve worked previously."

Which is probably why bloggers have noticed so many copious examples of phony-looking scenes -- from countless pristine stuffed animals lying in the foreground of destroyed buildings (slublog.com/archives/2006/08/the_passion_of.html), to artfully placed Korans amid scenes of destruction, to a snow-white wedding dress on a mannequin standing in the middle of a street surrounded by piles of rubble, to intact cars photographed on Lebanese roadsides and dubiously labeled as being struck by Israeli missiles (see hotair.com/archives/2006/08/14/fauxtography-amazing-new-iaf-missiles-mimic-sledgehammer-damage/).

Miscaptioning (which always makes Israel look worse, never Hezbollah, go figure) adds another dimension of fauxto deception. One Associated Press image of an anguished father carrying his dead 5-year-old daughter into a Gaza City hospital last week blamed the death on an Israeli airstrike. Charles Johnson found a correction of the caption revealing that the girl had been killed in a swingset accident. I found a Reuters photo of an 18-month-old girl with two broken legs that was pulled by the wire service in late July after being included among a photo set of hospital patients injured in an Israeli air raid. In truth, the girl had been admitted for a "routine hospitalisation." Then there was The New York Times' misrepresentation of a half-naked young man sprawled Pieta-like, appearing dead, amid Tyre rubble. The original Times' website photo caption? "The mayor of Tyre said that in the worst-hit areas, bodies were still buried under the rubble . . . " Turned out the "dead" man was a "rescue worker" who was supposedly "injured" (with his baseball cap tucked neatly in his arm as he closed his eyes and flung his head back) and had been photographed in several other scenes running around the bombing site.

Isolated incidents? In a rare moment of candor, CNN's Anderson Cooper revealed the routine mechanics of Hezbollywood propaganda tours last week: "I was in Beirut, and they took me on this sort of guided tour of the Hezbollah-controlled territories in southern Lebanon that were heavily bombed . . . they clearly want the story of civilian casualties out. That is their -- what they're heavily pushing, to the point where on this tour I was on, they were just making stuff up. They had six ambulances lined up in a row and said, OK, you know, they brought reporters there, they said you can talk to the ambulance drivers. And then one by one, they told the ambulances to turn on their sirens and to zoom off, and people taking that picture would be reporting, I guess, the idea that these ambulances were zooming off to treat civilian casualties, when in fact, these ambulances were literally going back and forth down the street just for people to take pictures of them."

"Just making stuff up." Remember that.

Meanwhile, the media ostriches carry on. Joe Elbert, Washington Post assistant managing editor for photography, told ombudsman Deborah Howell smugly: "We don't use tools to change reality."


Newsflash: You are the tools being used.


http://www.townhall.com/columnists/M...ndal_continues

Jolie-none of the photos in your first post work and the links are coming up forbidden. Is is just me?

Charles Johnson reports on a damning new twist in the ongoing Middle East fauxtography scandal: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?en..._the_Enemy&only

You’re not going to believe this one.

All our suspicions about mainstream media slanting and distorting the news from the Middle East are confirmed in a bombshell of a post by Bruno Stevens, at the Lightstalkers pro photographers’ forum: The Lebanon ‘garbage dump’ story: complete explanation. (Hat tip: Snapped Shot.)

His photograph, published by both US News and World Report and Time Magazine, had a caption describing the scene as the wreckage of an Israeli jet shot down by Hizballah. In this post, Stevens reveals that the captions he sent in with his pictures described the scene accurately—but editors at the magazines changed the captions to completely alter the story.

This caption clearly says that there is no proof that an Israeli jet had been shot down and that the objective was indeed to destroy a legitimate military target.

...A week later TIME published this image shot at the same time as the first...

They choose to caption it this way (I had NO control in this matter), they HAD my original caption: “The wreckage of a downed Israeli jet that was targeting Hizballah trucks billows smoke behind a Hizballah gunman in Kfar Chima, near Beirut. Jet fuel set the surrounding area ablaze.”

The anti-Israel bias of mainstream media has never been revealed more nakedly; the editors who selected this photograph deliberately changed the caption to convey an anti-Israel message, throwing the truth right out the window to do it.

And even more damning is the photo they chose not to publish, showing a medium range ground-to-ground missile launcher hidden in a civilian truck—on a Lebanese Army base. Stevens explains:

This is a very important piece of evidence showing probable collusion between Hezbollah and the Lebanese Army, there is little doubt that the Lebanese Army was aware of the presence of at least one missile launcher and at least one large missile on their parking lot. The size of the launcher, destroyed a couple of days later from the ground by an unknown party suggest missiles 10 to 14 meters long.

There were 6 to 8 large articulated trucks parked there, making it a very legitimate target for the Israeli Air Force, quite far away from civilian houses.

As I’ve written before, mainstream media is an absolute disgrace—and this time we can’t even blame it on local stringers doing the work of Hizballah. These distortions were perpetrated by Western editors, sitting in comfortable offices, demonizing Israel and covering up evidence of Hizballah war crimes and collusion with the Lebanese Army.

As Brian at Snapped Shot notes, we owe a debt of gratitude to Bruno Stevens for telling the truth about his photos.

http://www.lightstalkers.org/the__garbage_...ete_explanation


Yup. Go read the whole thing.

Waiting for all the MSM ethics mavens to weigh in.

Waiting...

Waiting...

Originally Posted by Jolie Rouge

Yup. Go read the whole thing.

Waiting for all the MSM ethics mavens to weigh in.

Waiting...

Waiting...

I hope you aren't holding your breath while you wait...lol.

Mmmmm yeah. Those bullets hit a building.....and I am 6' tall, slim and a super model.

The thing is, so many left wingers wouldn't know a spent shell from a pristine casing.

Originally Posted by LuvBigRip

Mmmmm yeah. Those bullets hit a building.....and I am 6' tall, slim and a super model.

The thing is, so many left wingers wouldn't know a spent shell from a pristine casing.

THIS left wingers does, lol!

Originally Posted by ahippiechic

THIS left wingers does, lol!

Yeah, but you are ghetto....LOL