What do you do when your war photo isn’t dramatic enough to produce the desired outrage? A Reuter’s wire service photographer added some buildings from a previous photo of Beruit to this new Israeli airstrike shot, and then cloned the smoke to spread it out. Only he got caught by these professionals and Charles Johnson’s Little Green Footballs and, a few hours later, al Reuters retracted the photo. The photographer, Adnan Hajj, has been suspended fired.
UPDATE Another fake-a-roo from the prolific Mr. Hajj, and 918 others under scrutiny. And soon thereafter, the phenom spread to the NYTimes and its staffer Tyler Hicks. The blogosphere is on the case. And finds that Hicks says he didn’t write the cutlines which make his work suspicious. Then Ynet weighs in with a piece on what is being called Fauxtography.
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