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Little Green Footballs:
Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut? — OK, now things are getting weird. — This Reuters photograph shows blatant evidence of manipulation. Notice the repeating patterns in the smoke; this is almost certainly caused by using the Photoshop "clone" tool to add more smoke to the image.
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Rob / Left & Right:
Reuters faking photos — Notice how the pattern repeats in the cloud at the top? — That's not the only thing that repeats: — The top red square is just a copy/paste of the lower. — The photo has been doctored, quite badly.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
The worst photoshop I've ever seen (Update: More evidence) — Not the very worst, of course. The worst professional-grade photoshop, I mean. It is, as Charles asserts, laughably bad: — Half the time you spend when you use the clone-stamp tool is spent on undoing those repeating patterns to make the image look more realistic.
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Michelle Malkin:
Where there's smoke, there's Photoshop? — ***scroll for updates...a reminder about Reuters' news-gathering policy from the Reuters website: "Our policy is to send news to our customers only after scrutiny by a group of production editors who ensure quality standards are maintained across all our news services.
Jeff Harrell / The Shape of Days:
Adnan Hajj isn't even trying anymore — Adnan Hajj is a prolific photojournalist — and I'm using that term loosely here — for Reuters who came under some pretty intense criticism in the wake of the recent incident at Qana in Lebanon. On July 30 at 2:21 p.m. Eastern time …
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Reuters Doctoring Photos From Lebanon? — When it comes to matters of forgery, I think Little Green Footballs has established his bona fides. — Even I can see the very suspicious "clonings" of picture elements here. And I'm an idiot. — Decide for yourself.
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Times of London:
Iran's plot to mine uranium in Africa — IRAN is seeking to import large consignments of bomb-making uranium from the African mining area that produced the Hiroshima bomb, an investigation has revealed. — A United Nations report, dated July 18, said there was "no doubt" …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Conn. Race Could Be Democratic Watershed — Loss by Lieberman May Embolden Critics of War — The passion and energy fueling the antiwar challenge to Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman in Connecticut's Senate primary signal a power shift inside the Democratic Party that could reshape the politics …
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Alaa Shahine / Reuters:
Mideast war rages on despite UN peace resolution — BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli troops fought gun battles with Hizbollah in south Lebanon and warplanes hit roads and bridges across the country on Sunday, hours after the U.N. Security Council received a draft resolution to end the war.
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James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web — Best of the Tube Tonight — We're scheduled to appear on CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" as part of a "political roundtable." The program airs today at 6 p.m. EDT, with a repeat showing at 4 a.m. tomorrow, and we're told we'll be on in the second half-hour. — Pinin' for the Fjords
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Mark / Mark in Mexico:
Mexico election: judges say "NO" to recount — Mexico's election commission judges, the TEPJF, have ruled, following a debate which was broadcast publicly, that there will be no full recount of the July presidential election ballots. The debate and decision, which were broadcast …
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Associated Press:
Cuban dissidents fearful of retaliation — HAVANA (AP) — Dissidents in Cuba's eastern provinces say the country's military has beefed up its presence on the streets and is telling citizens they have permission to respond with force against anyone who speaks out against the government.
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Charity Wins Deep Loyalty for Hezbollah — Haider Fayadh, left, watched the Hezbollah channel at his cafe in Tyre on Friday. Hezbollah took care of a huge electricity bill he could not pay. — Hezbollah paid for his wife's Caesarean section. It brought olive oil …
Omar Sinan / Associated Press:
Al-Qaida's No. 2 welcomes Egyptian group — CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader said in a new videotape aired Saturday that an Egyptian militant group has joined the terror network. — It was the first time that al-Qaida has announced a branch in Egypt, the Arab world's most populous nation.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
'Civil War' Is Uttered, and White House's Iraq Strategy Is Dealt a Blow — Men in Najaf, Iraq, moved coffins of seven Mahdi Army members Saturday. The fighters were killed Friday returning from a pro-Hezbollah rally. — Late last year, during a major address in Annapolis …
Richard / EU Referendum:
The Daily Hezbollagraph … He is responding to criticisms from this blog that scenes photographed at Qana (and especially the one above, used by The Telegraph) were stage-managed. (The caption reads: "A rescue worker carries the body of a young girl from the ruins of a basement shelter …