The Reuters story keeps getting curiouser and curiouser. Take a look at the progression of Adnan Hajj photographs posted by John at . The images all purport to show the aftermath of attacks on Qasmiya Bridge near the major Lebanese city of Tyre. However, the sequence shows odd states of repair after supposed devastation, and in some cases look like entirely different sites.
What has become apparent that Reuters has no editorial process for reviewing the photographs they get from their photojournalist stringers. The wire service relies on the photographer for the captioning, and it looks like they just act as an uncritical conduit between the photographer and the newspapers Reuters services. After discovering more than one questionable photograph, Reuters has -- but they still have not explained how their supposedly professional editorial checks failed to detect these obvious problems with Hajj and his work:
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So, if they bomb a bridge and Green Helmet Dude isn't there, does it make a sound?
Contributed by Bill Faith on August 7, 2006 at 10:28 PM in , , |