Wednesday, August 09, 2006
More On Reutergate
Justin Gardner at Donklephant has a compare and contrast type post on the photoshopped picture published by Reuters recently. The photographer, Adnan Hajj, who has since been fired for his piss-poor decision making, really botched this one.
The thing that gets me is that when I look at the original vs the doctored, I can't understand why he would have felt it necessary. The original is quite disturbing in its own rite. Why make it a cheap Microsoft attempt at a Bruckheimer style Pearl Harbor?
Have our imaginations really suffered so deeply, to the point that we need some crack-pot adding incredibly fake smoke to an already smoke filled picture; coming from a place where most of us realize by reading the daily news that the Lebanese civilians are perfectly innocent of these grade school shenanigans?
How pitiful.
The thing that gets me is that when I look at the original vs the doctored, I can't understand why he would have felt it necessary. The original is quite disturbing in its own rite. Why make it a cheap Microsoft attempt at a Bruckheimer style Pearl Harbor?
Have our imaginations really suffered so deeply, to the point that we need some crack-pot adding incredibly fake smoke to an already smoke filled picture; coming from a place where most of us realize by reading the daily news that the Lebanese civilians are perfectly innocent of these grade school shenanigans?
How pitiful.
