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March 17, 2006
AP Fakes A Photo (? -- Updated)
Report the news, and if the news isn't interesting enough, just fake it.
Via Israellycool.
Correction/Update: A poster who wishes to remain anonymous sends me information about the pic.
While this picture was run on the left-wing (I'm told) Haaretz.com, with attribution to the AP, in fact an earlier AP photo (actually it looks like a picture used in a banner, with additional graphics) does not show the "second settler."
The photo may have been taken from AP, photoshopped by someone else, and then used by Haaretz (with the AP attribution) without Haaretz realizing it had been altered. They'd be guilty then of gross negligence (I mean, how obvious is it that that "second settler" is just a duplicate of the first?), not deliberate deception or distortion.
And it appears, at the moment at least, that AP didn't create the fake photo. Or, at least, their original photo shows no "second settler."
Thanks to the anonymous tipster for that.