Columnist Tim Rutten suggests that more people (and newspapers) should be talking about the ‘Reutersgate’ controversy, and recognizes Charles Johnson and the blogosphere for outing Adnan Hajj’s and others’ manipulated photos. Rutten says that the blogosphere "is being employed to help keep journalism honest ultimately is to everybody’s benefit."
Despite firing photographer Adnan Hajj, Reuters has kept relatively quiet during the photo scandals that have unfolded over the past few weeks. Here is a collection of the events, for those who haven’t been paying attention: Via Zombietime
To clarify it’s mistake listed in the link above, the New York Times has issued a correction:
A picture caption with an audio slide show on July 27 about an Israeli attack on a building in Tyre, Lebanon, imprecisely described the situation in the picture. The man pictured, who had been seen in previous images appearing to assist with the rescue effort, was injured during that rescue effort, not during the initial attack, and was not killed.
The correct description was this one, which appeared with that picture in the printed edition of The Times: After an Israeli airstrike destroyed a building in Tyre, Lebanon, yesterday, one man helped another who had fallen and was hurt.
As this goes on, we’ll see what Reuters has to say for itself.
