Dangerous Misrepresentations

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Thank you for Joel Mowbray's article "Presenting false images" (Op-Ed, Wednesday), which noted that Reuters freelance photographer Adnan Hajj is not the first "journalist" to have digitally altered, staged, misidentified or fabricated photographs to disparage Israel. Indeed, Mr. Mowbray overlooks two of the most egregious instances of "fauxtography" in recent years: the Grossman caption and al-Dura blood libel.

On Sept. 30, 2000, the New York Times and other media outlets published an Associated Press picture showing a bloodied man crouching beneath a club-wielding Israeli policeman.

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Dangerous Misrepresentations

The photo caption identified the bloodied victim as a Palestinian and implied that the Israeli policeman had brutally beaten him. In fact, ...

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