Or a guest blogger should step in to make the site a 7-day-a-week operation. :)
UPDATED aug.8
Reuters finds another, but bloggers continue to complain. Reuters Sunday withdrew a photo out of Lebanon that appears to have been enhanced. It also told the freelance photographer who shot the photo that it won't use his work anymore.
LONDON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Reuters, the global news and information agency, told a freelance Lebanese photographer on Sunday it would not use any more of his pictures after he doctored an image of the aftermath of an Israeli air strike on Beirut.
The photograph by Adnan Hajj, which was published on news Web sites on Saturday, showed thick black smoke rising above buildings in the Lebanese capital after an Israeli air raid in the war with the Shi'ite Islamic group Hizbollah, now in its fourth week.
Reuters withdrew the doctored image on Sunday and replaced it with the unaltered photograph after several news blogs said it had been manipulated using Photoshop software to show more smoke.
This conservative web site has been pursuing this photo and photographer since July 31.
Here's another view of the same challenged picture.
The bloggers' objections are in part based on timestamps, a dubious argument since the stamp can reflect any number of points in the day, not just when the photo was taken. But there are some other issues being raised on these blogs, whether you like their political thrust or not.
If you follow the first site's account all the way through or read this guy on the same site, you'll also find some interesting stuff about a man described as a rescuer who seems to have appeared in photos shot in Qana in 1996.
A blogger for The Washington Post has been watching the "Qana Conspiracy" this past week, and, of course, there are plenty of counterviews.
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