By Andrew L. Jaffee

Remember the Qana “massacre,” which turned out to be quite questionable — an event trumped up to smear Israel’s right to self-defense (see here and here, also)? Lebanon’s prime minister tried some double-speak today, then retracted his statement. And those evil bloggers, e.g., LittleGreenFootballs.com, uncovered another attempt by Reuters to slander Israel — a digitally doctored photo of an IDF bombing run in Beirut. From the Jerusalem Post:

In the most recent in a series of online controversies to take on the mainstream media, a series of Web sites discredited a Reuters photograph of the fighting in Lebanon, forcing the news agency to issue an apology and remove the image from their archives.

The photograph by Adnan Hajj, which shows plumes of smoke rising from downtown Beirut after an IAF bombing, appeared to have been doctored to show more intense smoke and destruction over the city.

The Reuters news agency issued a statement acknowledging that “photo editing software was improperly used on this image. A corrected version will immediately follow this advisory. We are sorry for any inconvenience.”

Reuters’ head of PR Moira Whittle said that “Reuters has suspended a photographer until investigations are completed into changes made to a photograph showing smoke billowing from buildings following an air strike on Beirut. Reuters takes such matters extremely seriously as it is strictly against company editorial policy to alter pictures.”

Yeah, yeah, yeah. If Reuters wouldn’t of been caught with its pants down, it would be business as usual.

Even Lebanon’s prime minister has admitted to slandering the Jewish state:

Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Monday that one person was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the southern village of Houla, not 40 as he had earlier reported.

Can you spell “anti-Semitism?”

Digitally altered photograph of the aftermath of an IDF attack on Beirut.
Photo: Reuters

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