A couple of days ago Reuters admitted transmitting a doctored photo of smoke over Beirut. (The really amazing thing about that photo is the amateurish quality of the Photoshopping — doesn’t anybody even look at the photos before they hit the wire?) To their credit, Reuters apparently acted quickly when bloggers pointed out the fake, dismissing the photographer. It would have been more to their credit to put into action some of the much-vaunted "multiple layers of editing and checks" that supposedly elevate the MSM above the news blogs.
This episode inspired bloggers to scrutinize other recent wire-service photos and their captions. Jim Lindgren has a small roundup including Photoshopped "bombs" falling from an airplane, photographs of the same destroyed building showing up a couple of weeks apart as new damage, and the same woman pictured twice, in photos filed more than two weeks apart, both times mourning the destruction of her home, in one case a house, in another case an apartment. (The "unluckiest multiple home-owner in Beirut," one guy calls her.)
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