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Several Blogs have been investigating some of the media images of the recent Israeli attacks in Lebanon and have come to the conclusion that many of the images are at best stage managed.

One Routers photographer has already been dismised for manipulating images and some photographs have been withdrawn because of the questions about their authenticity.

The blogs claims indicate that there are four types of photo fraud

1. Digitally manipulating images after the photographs have been taken.

2. Photographing scenes staged by Hezbollah and presenting the images as if they were of authentic spontaneous news events.

3. Photographers themselves staging scenes or moving objects, and presenting photos of the set-ups as if they were naturally occurring.

4. Giving false or misleading captions to otherwise real photos that were taken at a different time or place.

All of these forms of fraud have the same intent: to serve as propaganda for Hezbollah, and to make the Israeli attacks look as brutal as possible. And, taken together, they raise a very serious question:

Can any of the coverage by the entrenched media be trusted?

The ever-growing scandal now involves most of the world’s news services including the BBC.

A Taxonomy of Fraud