Media make ups

I shall note one thing. Serious media does make up a lot of things. Even to the point when "retouches" photos for "more effect". And there's nothing new here. This didn't came to us on digital era but its has been quite a long time around. Since photography came up, a new profession arose with it - "retouching". On most cases we see as innocent practice on enhanced copies of blurred originals. But there have been serious cases of deliberate falsification. The most famous, the gradual disappearence of communist veterans in soviet official photos during the Big Purge of the 30's. Besides it was done quite professionaly as some people realised when came up to several "versions" of one and the same shot.

Yes, it happens but not only on "evil states" but also in democracies. And not only by evildoers but also for more innocent purposes. Once I read an article on Newsweek or Time where they showed several pics "made world famous" which in reality suffered their litle retouch. Some where quite innocent as the fall of one athlete where object was removed from the front of his nose for "more effect". Others were less innocent as the originals showed some politician not in the best way it could be.

Anyway, there is one thing that everyone shall take into account. Digital era didn't create the "hand of the reotuching wizard". It made its work much simpler and its detection much harder. Apart of Qana's story, which I deliberately avoid to make a judgement for now, the photos that where found by many people are very raw "retouches". Subprofessionals can do something better in a bigger order of accuracy and probably for the same time the Reuters guy did. So, be aware of anything you see. Don't eat it like a BigTasty... Look around the photos, and avoid what the scripwriter tells you to see.