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Second photo found, Reuters pulls pics

Posted by Cory Bergman on August 7, 2006

Reuters says it has found a second photo Photoshopped by freelance photographer Adnan Hajj (first one here). It shows an Israeli warplane dropping three flares, instead of one. And the caption explained they were missiles, not flares. As a result, Reuters has pulled all of Hajj’s 920 photographs. “There is no graver breach of Reuters standards for our photographers than the deliberate manipulation of an image,” said Global Picture Editor Tom Szlukovenyi. Doctored picture below…