As reported by CNN and the BBC this week, Reuters News Agency has dumped nearly 1,000 images from it’s archive, all from a single photographer. Why? Seems our photojournalist did the one thing any photojournalist should never do, doctor or ‘fix’ his images. In this case, a bad job of cloning smoke clouds over a Lebanese city was – for lack of a better term – a dead giveaway. While the the ‘amount’ of fixing can often be the source of debate, few will deny that an obviously doctored image, or one that has been edited to mislead or misrepresent reality, diminishes the public trust that is given to journalists in a free press society.
