Another Photographer fired for altering images

Anybody seen that manipulated Reuters pic?

I was just looking at a picture taken of Beirut after an Israeli air raid that was submitted to Reuters by a Lebanese photog that was so obviously cloned it was ridiculous.
The guy cloned smoke over the city to make it look larger and darker, but the ps work was so amateurish I just can't believe anyone would submit it as an actual picture, especially to a major news agency. What's even more disconcerting was that the picture was published. Doesn't anyone look at these things before they put them up??

I just saw that photo and your right, it is so awful! I cannot believe that it was published either.

You're right. It is so bad, I almost believe the photgrapher when he said it was 'an accident.' The only thing is, accidents like that just don't happen. He was dumb to try it, and Reuters was even dumber to run with it.

I was amazed it passed their "inspection." You could see the pattern in the smoke repeat itself. It seemed so obvious.

It's an interesting image. The cloning of the buildings to stretch the image vertically was quite well done, but he seemed to lose interest once he got to the fiddly smoke bits. (The original and doctored versions can be seen here: http://www.heise.de/tp​/r4/artikel/23/23280/1​.html )

I remember an image from some big US bushfires a number of years ago that made it to the cover of one of their national news magazines that had a photo of a fireman running towards the camera with two young children in his arms, the scene behind was just a wall of flame.

Very dramatic, but it was revealed later to be a photograph taken in a suburban street with the orange bits added in later for effect.

If anybody can remember and link to the image, I'd appreciate it. (I can't find reference to it anywhere)

Someone needs to introduce him to the soft edged brush.