From the REUTERS News Room (and they did respond to me directly):
"There is no graver breach of Reuters standards for our photographers than the deliberate manipulation of an image", said Tom Szlukovenyi, Reuters Global Picture Editor. "Reuters has zero tolerance for any doctoring of pictures and constantly reminds its photographers, both staff and freelance, of this strict and unalterable policy".
Reuters terminated its relationship with Hajj on Sunday after a review of a photograph he had taken of the aftermath of an Israeli air strike on suburban Beirut the previous day found it had been manipulated using Photoshop software to show more and darker smoke rising from buildings."
It turns out that this photographer had in fact doctored not one, but two photos (the other to show an Israeli jet dropping not one flare, but three, and then mislabelling those as "missiles"). See also Reuters drops Lebanese photographer over doctored image
I still think it's pretty damn egregious that one photo got by, never mind a second...
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