* two bridges given the same name
In the wake of this discovery, bloggers began to examine photos of the Lebanon/Israel conflict from other photographers. Suspected examples of staging, misleading captions, or other fakery include the following:
* a rescue worker displaying the body of a child allegedly killed in Israel's bombardment of Qana for what may have been a span of four hours[
* a series of photos of a tire fire misidentified as a downed Israeli jet. One of the photos appeared on the cover of the July 31, 2006 issue of U.S. News & World Report (Headlines: "Dangerous Liaisons: How radicals in Iran are rolling the Middle East from Lebanon to Iraq. What's really behind the violence. The region's new rocket threat. Israel's defense chief: Baptism by fire. Fouad Ajami on Lebanon's agony."). A photo from the same series appeared in Time Magazine with a caption identifying the fire as coming from a downed Israeli jet. Time admitted the error to "Gunny Bob," a radio host, in an e-mail.
In the wake of this discovery, bloggers began to examine photos of the Lebanon/Israel conflict from other photographers. Suspected examples of staging, misleading captions, or other fakery include the following:
* A photo of a car whose caption says that it was hit by "Israeli ware [sic] plane missiles" in Kfar Zabad. Readers of the blog [[Hot Air ]] point out that the car is not damaged enough to have been hit by a missile, e.g., the windshield is still intact, and that the hole in the top is most likely a missing sunroof.
* A photo of an ambulance whose caption says "Under fire: missile damage on the clearly marked ambulances, hit while caring for injured in the town of Qana." Dan Riehl at the blog Riehl World View observes that the ambulance does not appear to have sustained damage from a missile: the hole in the roof and accompanying dents are covered with rust and there is no charring from the explosion that allegedly accompanied the missile strike. He further points out inconsistencies between the various versions of the story.
* A photo of a rescue worker pulling a dead child from the rubble, an event which one blogger thinks might have been "stretched out" for the benefit of photographers.
==External Linkslinks==
*Day by Day editorial cartoon [http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2006/08/09/#a003741 about the photo controversy]. Last accessed August 8, 2006.
*Cox & Forkum editorial cartoon [http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000903.html about the photo controversy]. Last accessed August 7, 2006.
*[http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering/ Digital Tampering in the Media, Politics and Law]. Recent history of media photo manipulation. Hany Farid, associate professor, University of Massachusetts. Last accessed August 7, 2006.
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