To me, the Reuters photo scandal just proves what we've known all along about these wire services. It's almost expected, so I'm not terribly outraged (as I should be), just exasperated.
Personally, I think they're on the button at Powerline by saying that a faked photo is much less serious than a staged one. Also bad are the "stories" that go out on the wire that are pretty much editorials, and crappy ones at that. I'd like to see a crackdown on these wire services. Of course, not a government one, but a market-based one. Problem is, of the majors (AP, UPI, Reuters), I've seen these problems in all of them.
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