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Friday, 15 December 2006

Reuters pictures of the year; Plus: lessons for AP
Michelle Malkin

Yahoo! News is currently featuring a slideshow of Reuters pictures of the year.

The gallery of 208 images includes everything from a guy submerged in tomatoes, to soccer shots, celebrity cheesecake, more celebrity cheesecake, more sports shots, the Chavez-Castro lovefest, the lady speared with a javelin, Mel Gibson's mugshot, more celebrity cheesecake, and, oh, did I mention celebrity cheesecake?

I slogged through the entire slideshow. Guess what's missing?

Yup, the two most unforgettable Reuters images of them all: The Picture Kill graphics of disgraced former Reuters fauxtographer Adnan Hajj's Photoshopped fakes uncovered by bloggers Charles Johnson at LGF and Rusty Shackleford at My Pet Jawa: ...

Perhaps Yahoo! would consider creating a special slideshow dedicated to the worst fauxtography of 2006. Start here. Go here. And here. And here. And here. And here. For starters.

Meanwhile, Charles at LGF notes that Reuters CEO Tom Glocer has addressed fauxtography and the blogosphere in a recent speech.

So what does the Hajj incident tell us? There are three key lessons:

The first is accountability. ...

Posted by Bill Faith on December 15, 2006 at 12:51 AM in Media Malpractice | Permalink

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