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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
Another Fake Reuters Photo from Lebanon — Another photo by Reuters photographer Adnan Hajj has been shown to be doctored. The photo, which proports to be of an Israeli F-16 firing missiles on Lebanon has been doctored to make the photo seem more sensational. — Here is the original Reuters photo along with its caption.
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Assaf Uni / Haaretz:
Reuters admits image of Beirut after IAF strike was doctored — The Reuters news agency admitted Sunday that it had published a doctored photograph of Beirut after an Israel Air Force strike on Saturday morning. — In the original image, thin smoke can be seen rising over the Lebanese capital …
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
REUTERS CALLS THE DOCTOR, TAKE 2 — Rusty Shackleford discovers "Another fake Reuters photo from Lebanon." Rusty writes that "What is a passed as a photo showing an Israeli bombing raid against a 'village' is actually of an F-16 taking defensive measures." And reader Robert Opalecky writes:
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Reuters:
Reuters drops freelance Lebanese photographer over image — Source: Reuters — LONDON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Reuters, the global news and information agency, told a freelance Lebanese photographer on Sunday it would not use any more of his pictures after he doctored an image of the aftermath of an Israeli air strike on Beirut.
Amos Harel / Haaretz:
14 Hezbollah fighters killed in heavy exchanges of fire with IDF ground troops — Israel Defense Forces soldiers killed 14 Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon combat early on Monday. — Infantry troops from the Nahal Brigade encountered a Hezbollah cell in the village of Houla and a fierce gun battle broke out.
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Haaretz:
Six killed as 400 rockets pound North — Nearly 400 rockets were fired at the north over the weekend, killing six people. This brings to 33 the number of Israeli civilians killed since the fighting in the north began on July 12. — Hezbollah fired 170 Katyushas across northern Israel yesterday.
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Associated Press:
Lieberman shows signs cutting into Lamont lead, poll shows — HARTFORD, Conn. — U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, fighting for his political survival, appears to be cutting into challenger Ned Lamont's lead the day before Connecticut's Democratic primary election, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday.
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Martin Peretz / Opinion Journal:
Lieberman — The "peace" Democrats are back. It's a dream come true for Karl Rove. — We have been here before. Left-wing Democrats are once again fielding single-issue "peace candidates," and the one in Connecticut, like several in the 1970s, is a middle-aged patrician …
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Eric Heyl / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Ney drops out of fall race — TRIBUNE-REVIEW — Entangled in the scandals involving former Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, embattled U.S. Rep. Robert Ney is ending his re-election bid. — Although Ney had vowed to stay in the race even if he is indicted, the Ohio Republican decided last week to bow out.
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Mary Pemberton / Associated Press:
Major Alaskan oil field shutting down — ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In a sudden blow to the nation's oil supply, half the production on Alaska's North Slope was being shut down Sunday after BP Exploration Alaska, Inc. discovered severe corrosion in a Prudhoe Bay oil transit line.
Aparisim Ghosh / Time:
Baghdad Diary — A knot begins to form in my stomach exactly at 8 a.m., when I step into the small Fokker F-28 jet that will take me and 50 other passengers from Amman, Jordan, to Baghdad. I know what lies ahead: an hour's uneventful flying over unchanging desert, followed by the world's scariest landing …
Scott Michels / US News:
For Gays, New Math — Rethinking tactics after a series of setbacks nationwide — After the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court legalized gay marriage in 2003, and gay and lesbian couples began to wed in San Francisco and Portland, Ore., soon after, it seemed to Lisa Stone that a new era was sweeping the country.
Siobhan Gorman / Baltimore Sun:
NSA risking electrical overload … WASHINGTON // The National Security Agency is running out of juice. — The demand for electricity to operate its expanding intelligence systems has left the high-tech eavesdropping agency on the verge of exceeding its power supply, the lifeblood …
Zuzu / Feministe:
Hostile — Update: Jessica has some ideas about what you can do. — Claire Hoffman, a staff writer for the LA Times, got a little more than she bargained for when she took an assignment to write an article for the paper's magazine about "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis:
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CNN:
CNN RELIABLE SOURCES — Coverage of War in the Middle East — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — HOWARD KURTZ, CNN ANCHOR, RELIABLE SOURCES: War and more war. As the Israeli/Lebanon conflict heads toward the second month …