Reuters is in need of their own category here! Good heavens, this is beyond a tiny boo boo! Here are some links of interest!
Reuters’ Pro-Terrorist Tilt: More than Dishonest Photos
It’s not just the doctored photos. Apart from the most recent travesty of journalistic ethics, it’s worth recalling how Reuters has also tilted its words in favor of those who promote terror and misery around the world.
For example, Iraqis compelled to vote for Saddam Hussein back in 2002 were “defiant” and in a “festive mood,” while Saddam’s capture by U.S. forces a year later was marked by “resentment…of life under U.S. occupation.”
For Reuters’ editors, the first anniversary of 9/11 was a reminder that “human rights around the world” have been a “casualty” of the war on terror, while the second anniversary was a time to point out how “sympathy [for America] soured” as the U.S. actually fought back against the forces of darkness.
Oh, and let’s not forget: “We all know that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter and that Reuters upholds the principle that we do not use the word terrorist….To be frank, it adds little to call the attack on the World Trade Center a terrorist attack.” – Steven Jukes, global head of news for Reuters News Service, in an internal memo cited by the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz in a September 24, 2001 article.
A Lebanese man runs away from the burning ruins of a building destroyed during an overnight Israeli air raid on Beirut’s suburbs August 5,2006. Many buildings were flattened during the attack. (Adnan Hajj/Reuters)
He’s running away from a building that was hit in an overnight raid? That patch of sky sure looks bright to me!
Reuters reports worldwide that 40 civilians were killed in Houla, Lebanon as a result of an “intentional” Israeli bombing. Less than three hours later AP reports that there was only one death in the same bombing.
Lebanon demands ceasefire as death toll climbs
BEIRUT (Reuters) – … “An hour ago, a horrific massacre took place in Houla village as a result of the intentional Israeli bombardment that resulted in more than 40 martyrs,” Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora told an Arab foreign ministers meeting in Beirut.The Lebanese prime minister says only one person died in an Israeli air raid on the southern village of Houla, lowering the death toll from 40.
Reuters withdraws all photos by Lebanese freelance
LONDON, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Reuters withdrew all 920 photographs by a freelance Lebanese photographer from its database on Monday after an urgent review of his work showed he had altered two images from the conflict between Israel and the armed group Hizbollah.
Global Picture Editor Tom Szlukovenyi called the measure precautionary but said the fact that two of the images by photographer Adnan Hajj had been manipulated undermined trust in his entire body of work.
“There is no graver breach of Reuters standards for our photographers than the deliberate manipulation of an image,” Szlukovenyi said in a statement.
The following is old news that wasn’t given much play at the time. But it fits right in with the ongoing Reutersgate scandal.
Saddam’s parades of dead babies are exposed as a cynical charade
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