Adnan Hajj photographs controversy [SEP] occupation
Adnan Hajj photographs controversy
The Adnan Hajj photographs controversy (also called Reutersgate) involves digitally manipulated photographs taken by Adnan Hajj, a Lebanese freelance photographer based in the Middle East, who had worked for Reuters over a period of more than ten years. Hajj's photographs were presented as part of Reuters' news coverage of the 2006 Lebanon War, but Reuters has admitted that at least two were significantly altered before being published.
Timeline.
The first image was discovered on August 5, 2006 when blogger Charles Johnson of
the United States, LGF is perhaps best known for playing a key role in exposing the fraud of the Killian documents regarding President George W. Bush, which preceded the resignation of CBS's Dan Rather. The site won the "Washington Post"s reader poll for Best International Blog in November 2004 and played a role in bringing attention to altered photographs in the Adnan Hajj photographs controversy. In July 2008, LGF identified that photographs of Iran's missile test had been altered, and was credited by much of the media for this.