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Adnan Hajj’s Secret Identity

· Wednesday, August 9, 2006 · 2 comments

Rusty Shackleford provides some rather compelling evidence that renowned PhotoShopper Adnan Hajj is also selling photos to Reuters–still–under the name Issam Kobeisi. It gets much, much better: Hajj and Kobeisi have been selling identical photos to Reuters!

Granting that Reuters is a large organization and that oversight over massive streams of digital photos coming in from a war zone is difficult, this doesn’t speak too highly of Reuters’ vaunted editorial standards.

Update (Chris Lawrence): Rusty has posted an update that verifies that Hajj and Kobeisi are two different people; apparently, the identical photos were the result of a misattribution of a Hajj photo to Kobeisi.

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  1. » Gone Hollywood says:
    Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 16:31

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  2. Mensa Barbie Welcomes You says:
    Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 15:47

    (photoshop) A Sheep Decree?…

    I don’t think this photoshop will fly… But speaking of Photoshop:
    An interesting post at Outside the beltway- Adnan HajjÂ’s Secret Identity…

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