On the left, the picture is cropped. On the right, the photo published by Reuters.
Reuters news agency based in England has been stung for the second time on charges of politically sensitive edited photos in a way that puts Israel in a bad light. But this time, Reuters claims that it was not his fault. news agency responded to questions raised by an American blogger who showed that the Reuters photo service knives, and removed the traces of blood to edit the photos taken aboard the Mavi Marmara activists during a confrontation with Israeli commandos last week. Nine people were killed and dozens wounded in the clash.
fight photos were published by HHI, the Turkey-based group that sponsored the fleet of six boats that tried to break Israel's blockade of Gaza.
In one photo, an Israeli commando is shown lying on the deck, surrounded by activists. The uncropped photo released by HHI shows the hand of an unidentified activist holding a knife. But in the photo from Reuters, the hand is visible but the knife has been deleted.
The blog "Little Green Footballs [green ball Football] challenged the edition of the Reuters photo.
"That's a very interesting way to crop the photo. Most people would consider that knife an important part of context. There was a huge controversy over whether the activists were armed. Cut out a knife, in a photo showing a soldier who apparently had been stabbed seems like a very strange editorial decision. Unless someone was trying to hide it, "said blogger.
In a second photo printing unedited published by HHI shows blood along the railing of the ship and one hand holding a knife while an Israeli soldier lying on the deck. Both the blood and the knife went missing in the photo that Reuters published. Reuters refused
on Thursday to try to alter the political meanings of the photographs.
"The images in question were made available in Istanbul, following a normal editorial practice were prepared for release which included cutting the edges," news agency said in a statement. "When we realized that a knife had been inadvertently cut images, Reuters moved immediately to the original set as well."
Reuters has not responded to the changes on the second photo.
This is the second time that Reuters has been accused of manipulating photos. In 2006, a Reuters photographer, Adnan Hajj, adultery several photos of the destruction caused by Israel's bombardment of Beirut. In one he added smoke to the panorama of Southern Beirut to make the damage look more severe than it was. In a second picture, he showed a woman whose house was allegedly destroyed in the attack, but an investigation revealed that the woman's house had been destroyed before the Israeli attack. Reuter
later removed all more than 900 pictures of Hajj of the distribution and cut ties with him. A photo editor was also fired.
BY: Ed Barnes
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