Al Reuters.... again!

Reuters admits to more image manipulation No major surprise there. The worst thing about all this, how is anyone suppose to take ANY news source seriously? Ok, stupid question. With events in recent years about the questionable "reporting", it's hard for any reasonable person to take much in the "news" seriously without doing some checking of their own.

Reuters has withdrawn a second photograph (above) and admitted that the image was doctored, following the emergence of new suspicions against images provided by the news organization. On Sunday, Reuters admitted that one of its photographers, Adnan Hajj, used software to distort an image of smoke billowing from buildings in Beirut in order to create the effect of more smoke and damage.

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Following the accusations, Reuters conceded that a second image it provided had been manipulated, and released a statement saying it had recalled all photos by Hajj. "Reuters has withdrawn from its database all photographs taken by Beirut-based freelance Adnan Hajj after establishing that he had altered two images since the start of the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese Hizbullah group," the statement said.

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Reuters also said it would apply "tighter editing procedure for images of the Middle East conflict to ensure that no photograph from the region would be transmitted to subscribers without review by the most senior editor on the Reuters Global Pictures Desk."

Not only does this discredit anything coming from Reuters, it calls into question ALL pictures and reports. Journalism was an honorable profession, to a degree, at one time. And yes, there are still some journalists with integrity, however, even their credibility will be called into question because of the dishonorable among them.