Adnan Hajj took a picture of Beirut, Lebanon after an Israeli strike force assaulted the city during the 2006 crisis. He took his original photograph, and Photoshopped it, badly. He took one of the plumes of smoke, and cloned it. He also cloned several of the buildings, making the Beirut skyline almost unrecognizable. He even darkened the skies of the city. His only defense was that he hadn't Photoshopped it, and had only enhanced it to remove dust. Eveyone suspects that he did it because he is Lebanese, and therefore wanted to show Israel in a negative light. In doing this, however, he took the journalistic integrity of Rueters, and tore it apart. This wasn't the first time he did this, but it was the last.
I like this photo manipulation because it was for the good. I understand why he did it and he did it for all good reasons.
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