Anyone ever read Rising Sun by Michael Crichton?

[shirenomad]

There's this part where one of the main characters discovers a video clip is edited. And she isn't outraged that it's a forgery; she's outraged that it's such a BAD forgery, it means the forger expected the person analyzing the video to be a total retard.

I feel like her right now. Seriously, look at the smoke clouds. I could do a better Photoshopping job in half an hour.

[EDIT] Looks like Reuters got a clue; the image is off their site now. Here's what you missed...

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[shirenomad]

Look at the smoke clouds. See the repeated patterns? Smoke simply doesn't look like that; someone created that smoke with Photoshop's clone tool.

And yes, others have commented it's a fake (enough to get Reuters' attention, anyway); I'll dig up some links later.

[mountainranger.livejournal.com]

I guess those two patterns in the cloud, sure. But why? o_O

[mountainranger.livejournal.com]

(and if it wasn't clear, I was pondering why someone would fake the picture). =P

[shirenomad]

Reuters has now released what they claim to be the original photo, which shows a single smaller plume of smoke and much less housing, viewable here. This original is much less damning toward the Israeli forces: a single small strike is likely the surgical annihilation of a rocket launch point, whereas two larger strikes in a more populated neighborhood suggests more indiscriminate attacks on the part of Israel. In other words, the reason was propaganda.

[mountainranger.livejournal.com]

Ooh, very good point. For some reason, I was trying to think if the photographer wanted Israel to look like it was having more success or something. =P

But yeah, that makes more sense, and thanks for the informational link! :)