Manipuliert Reuters Fotos?
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Little Green Footballs - Announcing: Little Green Linkage hat vermeintliche ge(ver)fälschte Fotos aufgedeckt.
Did Reuters Crop a Photo to Remove a Peace Activist's Weapon?
Media | Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:05:59 am PDT
A Turkish newpaper has released
photos taken by the “peace activists” aboard the
Mavi Marmara, showing them attempting to take injured Israeli soldiers hostage.
Here’s one of the pictures; notice the knife held by a “peace activist” in the lower right corner:
And here’s the same photo as released by Reuters earlier today:
That’s a very interesting way to crop the photo. Most people would consider that knife an important part of the context. There was a huge controversy over whether the activists were armed. 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.
And this would not be the first time that Reuters has been
caught altering photos for propaganda purposes.
(Hat tip: KT.)
UPDATE at 6/6/10 10:30:02 am:
The Associated Press published the picture too — without cropping it:
The Associated Press: Turkish group releases photos of Israeli soldiers
Der 2. Fall
Another Cropped Reuters Photo Deletes Another Knife - And a Pool of Blood
Media | Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 3:25:19 pm PDT
OK, come on now. I mean, really.
One picture cropped to remove a knife might be explained as incompetence or a simple mistake.
But 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.
Reuters has published this picture from the activists:
The picture is a cropped version of this photo from
the IHH website (IHH is the Islamist group whose members rioted aboard the Mavi Marmara):
What did the Reuters photo editor crop out? A big knife and a big pool of blood.
UPDATE at 6/6/10 4:20:27 pm:
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.
Also see:
LGF Pages - Fauxtography: Reuters Crops Out Peace Activist Weapon Again.
Mittlerweile dürften sie die Fotos auf ihrer HP wieder geändert haben.
Auch im Libanonkrieg 2006 wurden von Reuters bereits Bilder verfälscht.
[h1]Weblogger decken Reuters-Bildfälschung auf[/h1]
von Redaktion | 15. August 2006, 20:30
Foto von israelischen Bombenangriffen war mit Bildbearbeitung manipuliert worden, um Zerstörungen dramatischer erscheinen zu lassen
Der Volltext dieses auf Agenturmeldungen (z. B. APA und REUTERS) basierenden Artikels steht aus rechtlichen Gründen nicht mehr zur Verfügung.
Weblogger decken Reuters-Bildfälschung auf - Netzpolitik - derStandard.at ? Web
Andere ge(ver)fälschte Fotos von Reuters sieht man hier. Teilweise wurde sie von den Arabern für Propagandazwecke weiterverwendet.
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