Bloggers 1, Reuters 0

No surprise to read that bloggers have outed another fraudulent "news source".

No surprise that photos of Beirut are being photo shopped. It's easy although doing it really well is expensive. Computer Generated Imagery. What, you thought the balls in the Sony Bravia ad were real?

Check out the headline of the advisory - "Picture Kill". That's the way Reuters informs all the trusting tv producers and newspaper editors who used the photo that they've made a teeny mistake.

Check out the name of the photographer!

"Adnan Hajj, the photographer who sent the altered image, was also the Reuters photographer behind many of the images from Qana – which have also been the subject of suspicions for being staged."

Psychological weapons are important armaments. I will remember the photographs of the "rescue worker" holding a broken child in the midst of ruins. I knew at the time I was being manipulated because the source I was reading showed the series of photos of that particular "rescue worker" with his photogenic "victim", all taken over a two hour period at various angles, in various settings.

Little Green Footballs does it again, yay Charles!

Gatekeepers - in the news, in the financial sector (Enron anyone?), if you don't know them personally I'd suggest not relying on them.

TARA: "You think you know ... what's to come ... "
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Restless, Season Four