Continued from Reutergate 4

Breaking: Reuters pulls all 920 of Adnan Hajj’s photos
Allahpundit

As an, ahem, “precautionary” measure, while they investigate.

‘Twas Rusty killed the beast:

Reuters ended its relationship with Hajj on Sunday after it found that a photograph he had taken of the aftermath of an Israeli air strike on suburban Beirut had been manipulated using Photoshop software to show more and darker smoke rising from buildings.

An immediate enquiry began into Hajj’s other work.

It established on Monday that a photograph of an Israeli F-16 fighter over Nabatiyeh, southern Lebanon and dated Aug 2, had also been doctored to increase the number of flares dropped by the plane from one to three.

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Mary Katharine Ham: Fake, Take Three and Four

Michelle has more here.

Beth's all over the story. I'm not going to try for individual links; just scroll, scroll, scroll.

Audio: Rush Comments On Busted Al-Reuters Photographer

It Shines For All: Reuters' Doctored Photographs

Wizbang!: Reuters Admits Second Hajj Photo was Doctored, Pull All of His Photos

Dan Riehl: Adnan Hajj IS An Editor?, Beirut Redux?

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Video: Charles Johnson talks shop on CNN (Update: Drudge audio added)

Tomorrow when the world finds out Hajj and Green Helmet Dude have been sleeping together for years, remember you heard it from me first so I can be on Drudge Radio and CNN.

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John Hinderaker: Staging and Faking

Jawa Report: Reuters : Don't DARE Question Their Veracity

Heidi at ER: Reutersgate Continued

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Institutional Failure at Reuters
By Thomas Lifson

Though I am five thousand miles away, I think that I can detect the vibrations emanating from West Norwood Cemetery in London. For surely Paul Julius Reuter, the German rabbi's son who founded the Reuters News Agency a century and a half ago, is spinning in his grave.

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Contributed by Bill Faith on August 7, 2006 at 03:02 PM in Bill Faith, Haider Ajina, Lebanon, Media Perfidy | Permalink

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