Nobody dare do this if he is associated with an agency like Reuters...pls read on what BBC says...
Reuters sacks Beirut photographer
Images of smoke in Beirut have been widely used during the conflict
The news agency Reuters has withdrawn from sale 920 pictures taken by a photographer after finding he had doctored two images taken in Lebanon.
Bloggers first spotted that smoke on Adnan Hajj's image of the aftermath of an Israeli air strike in Beirut appeared to have been made darker.
A Reuters investigation confirmed this and also found two flares had been added to an image of an Israeli jet.
Mr Hajj told the BBC he denied doctoring the content of the images.
He said had tried to clean dust off the first image, a shot of buildings in a suburb of Beirut, on which Reuters found smoke plumes had been darkened and expanded using computer software.
"It was so badly done - an amateur could have done better," Bob Bodman, picture editor at the Daily
2006-08-07
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