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U.S. Army Issues Doctored Photos Of Dead G.I.s To Associated Press
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by Jarrett Martineau | September 19, 2008 at 03:31 pm
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You can work hard not to succumb to feeling completely cynical, discouraged, and manipulated by the government, the media, and the military...and then something like this happens and throws it all right out the window.
(Read while listening to this.)
The Associated Press retracted two government-issued photographs last night after a photographer in Texas alerted the agency that the photos in question appeared to be doctored.Bob Owen, chief photographer of the San Antonio Express-News, notified the AP that the photos of two deceased soldiers, who died in Iraq on Sept. 14, were nearly identical. Upon examining the photos, Owens noticed that everything except for the soldier's face, name, and rank was the same. The most glaring similarity, Owen told CJR, was that the camouflage patterns of the two uniforms were "perfectly identical."
After inspecting the photographs, the AP confirmed that the images were, indeed, Photoshopped, and issued eliminations on the two photos.
Opinion: No matter what truths we think, hope, and wish we were being told, we eventually realize how continually we are being lied to.
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at 15:40 on September 19th, 2008
Jarrett Martineau, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 15:43 on September 19th, 2008
This is terrible. I don't understand why they would do this actually. I agree with your opinion line at the bottom.
at 15:47 on September 19th, 2008
I don't normally do this but, for everyone's reference, here is the photograph in question:
Source: cjr.org
at 18:17 on September 19th, 2008
Disturbing.
at 20:48 on September 19th, 2008
Jarrett Martineau, I was that I could say that this is very shocking to hear about. Sadly given "Baby" Bush's previous propaganda concerning the fiasco in Iraq, it is not surprising. It just makes one ask all the more - "What have we not been told." that will come back to haunt us. By the way nice piece, thanks.
at 20:53 on September 19th, 2008
Please make that "I wish that I could ..." . My goof. Sorry.
at 21:16 on September 19th, 2008
You know, there probably was a decent reason, but it still was wrong - not to mention stupid and disrespectful.
at 21:24 on September 19th, 2008
Jarrett Martineau, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Thanks for the report. Do you know why the photographs were altered? If the soldiers were dead, were they altered to make it appear they died of something less awful than what really killed them, or what? Thanks in advance.
Mary
at 22:09 on September 19th, 2008
Jarrett Martineau, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 22:52 on September 19th, 2008
Jarrett Martineau, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 23:00 on September 19th, 2008
That's what happens in any war- i don't think this should be any surprise to anyone. It only shows how far North American society is from actually being able to recognize war's horrors.
at 23:37 on September 19th, 2008
Jarrett Martineau, I like this story. It's good stuff.