08 August 2006

Reuters drops Beirut photographer

"Bloggers first spotted that smoke on Adnan Hajj's image of the aftermath of an Israeli air strike in Beirut appeared to have been made darker.

A Reuters investigation confirmed this and also found two flares had been added to an image of an Israeli jet. "

"It was so badly done - an amateur could have done better," Bob Bodman, picture editor at the Daily Telegraph newspaper, told the BBC.

Click on the link below for the full article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5254838.stm

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