Twisted media reporting on the Gaza flotilla story.

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I have to repost this which was sent to me. I find this despicable! Will this be simply"swept" under the carpet?


Reuters under fire for removing weapons, blood from images of Gaza flotilla

News agency rejects charges of biased coverage, says it reverted to use of 'original set' of images once cropping discovered.

By Natasha Mozgovaya
  • Published 01:12 08.06.10
  • Latest update 01:12 08.06.10
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/reuters-under-fire-for-removing-weapons-blood-from-images-of-gaza-flotilla-1.294780



The Reuters news agency has been accused of removing images of activists wielding weapons and bloodied and wounded Israeli naval commandos from photographs taken on board a ship headed for Gaza during deadly clashes last week.
An image of an IDF soldier being attacked by passengers on the Mavi Marmara ship, with a passenger's knife, the hand of a wounded soldier and a pool of blood cropped out.
An image of an IDF soldier being attacked by passengers on the Mavi Marmara ship, with a passenger's knife, the hand of a wounded soldier and a pool of blood cropped out.Reuters
The same image of an IDF soldier being attacked by passengers on the Mavi Marmara ship, with the knife, soldier's hand and pool of blood restored.



An image of an IDF soldier being attacked by passengers on the Mavi Marmara ship, with a passenger's knife cropped out.
An image of an IDF soldier being attacked by passengers on the Mavi Marmara ship, with a passenger's knife cropped out.Reuters

The same image of an IDF soldier being attacked by passengers on the Mavi Marmara ship, with the knife restored.
The same image of an IDF soldier being attacked by passengers on the Mavi Marmara ship, with the knife restored. Reuters
Nine people were killed and dozens others, among them Israel Defense Forces soldiers, were hurt when the clashes erupted as IDF troops tried to board the Mavi Marmara ship in order to prevent it reaching its destination in Gaza.
The ship was one of six vessels that made up the "Freedom Flotilla," a convoy carrying aid that set out from Turkey in an attempt to break Israel's blockade on the Gaza Strip. Five of the boats in the convoy were boarded by IDF troops without incident, while passengers on the sixth fought the troops as they came onboard. All six boats were towed by the Israel Navy to the Israeli port city of Ashdod.
Reuters on Monday rejected accusations of biased coverage, adding that it had reverted to the use of "the original set" of images, once the organization realized that the photographs it had published had been cropped.
A Reuters spokesman told Haaretz: "Reuters is committed to an accurate and impartial reporting. All images that pass over our wire follow a strict editorial evaluation and selection process.
"The images in question were made available in Istanbul in following normal editorial practice were prepared for dissemination which included cropping at the edges. When we realized that the dagger was inadvertently cropped from the images Reuters immediately moved to the original set as well.”
This is not the first time that Reuters has been criticized for images that appear to be biased against Israel. During the Second Lebanon War in 2006, the news agency admitted that one of its pictures of destruction caused by Israel's bombing of Beirut had been altered with a computer graphics program. 




They deserve this parody ...




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