MSM Blunder: Reuters Doctoring Photos

Strange that The Inquirer just installed Adobe Creative Suite this week. Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive (CSS has never been so easy!) -- these programs grant mindblowing powers. The tutorials are a bit like gnawing dry wood, so to be honest we haven't mastered skills beyond adjusting the contrast quite yet, but then again, after Reuters Photog Adnan Hajj was canned for manipulating a shot of an Israeli air raid on Beirut (top right), it's not clear that he has, either.

Of course news is a tricky business, and Reuters (a helluva good wire service, mind you) did a nice job of explaining exactly their Photoshop policy, which they setup by writing, "Back in the days of the darkroom . . . "

Is the original image really all that bad? (At right, bottom.)

Reuters yanked all 920 photos of Hajj's photos. Blunder.

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