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More BBC fakery
Topic Started: Jul 10 2008, 09:08 PM (749 Views)
JFK
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http://news.aspects.cc/media-deception/bbc-fakery-again

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Sureshot
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Your glorious Loose Change Forum dictator...
I'm surprised the Iranians actually released a doctored photo. But yeah quite embarrassing.

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DoYouEverWonder

Sureshot
Jul 10 2008, 09:30 PM
I'm surprised the Iranians actually released a doctored photo. But yeah quite embarrassing.

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How do we know it was the Iranians who doctored the photo?

I don't see why they would, since they also released the video of the launch that doesn't have the 'doctored' images and clearly shows three missiles taking off and one vehicle with a missile that didn't go off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtX4wHQn1a4


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ShaDow

You should have read the update under the Article.

Update: turns out this photo was outed as a fake yesterday on Little Green Footballs, and a link to this site is currently on Reddit. And yet the BBC are still using it. Any excuses about “editorial mistakes” just don’t cut it.

Well, they seem to have changed the image at last (3pm or so). Luckily I took a screen grab before they did. I see the accreditation for the image has changed from AFP to Associated Press. Something stinks.
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An article I found on the story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080711/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_missiles_photos

Expert: Iran `doctored' photo of missile launches

By CARLEY PETESCH, Associated Press Writer
Thu Jul 10, 11:46 PM ET


NEW YORK - An Iranian photograph showing a cluster of missile launches was apparently altered to add a fourth missile lifting off from a desert range, a defense analyst said Thursday.

"There's no doubt the photo was doctored," said Mark Fitzpatrick, director of the Non-Proliferation Program for the London-based International Institute For Strategic Studies.

The image, posted Wednesday on a Web site owned by Iran's Revolutionary Guards, showed four missiles moments after launch, leaving trails of glowing exhaust and clouds of billowing brown dust.

The scene was described as part of military maneuvers in which nine missiles were test fired, including an enhanced version of the Shahab-3. Iranian officials say the new missile has a range of 1,250 miles, which would enable a strike on Israel and most of the Middle East. The tests drew immediate criticism from Washington.

Some media outlets used the photo, but it was not carried by The Associated Press.

The photo on the Sepah News site was replaced Thursday with an image showing three missiles — which appear to be the same as the earlier photo. In place of the fourth missile, however, the photo showed one still on the ground in its launch position and what appears to be a vehicle nearby.

That photo was used by the AP. The image with four launches was taken off the Sepah site's main news page, but both photos were on its archive Thursday.

Fitzpatrick, a former State Department official who followed arms control issues, believes the photo was manipulated after the missile malfunctioned.

"They had a rocket launch and one failed," he said. "They have had other tests that have succeeded, but Iran tends to exaggerate its capabilities."

There was no immediate comment from Iranian government officials on the photos.

"The whole purpose of these launches was to demonstrate Iran's capabilities and a photo showing one out of four rockets failing doesn't have the intended impact," Fitzpatrick said.

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The image, posted Wednesday on a Web site owned by Iran's Revolutionary Guards, showed four missiles moments after launch, leaving trails of glowing exhaust and clouds of billowing brown dust.

The scene was described as part of military maneuvers in which nine missiles were test fired, including an enhanced version of the Shahab-3. Iranian officials say the new missile has a range of 1,250 miles, which would enable a strike on Israel and most of the Middle East. The tests drew immediate criticism from Washington.

Some media outlets used the photo, but it was not carried by The Associated Press.

The photo on the Sepah News site was replaced Thursday with an image showing three missiles — which appear to be the same as the earlier photo. In place of the fourth missile, however, the photo showed one still on the ground in its launch position and what appears to be a vehicle nearby.

That photo was used by the AP. The image with four launches was taken off the Sepah site's main news page, but both photos were on its archive Thursday.



http://www.sepahnews.com/
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http://sepahnews.com/nEWS/uNew.aspx?id=12506&pid=0
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search of the entire site for the farsi word for "missile" ( موشک ),

http://www.sepahnews.com/Search/UNews.aspx

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links back only to the same article from before, which features on the Shahab3 missile (singular) photo. there is no so-called "archive" except for the search function.


http://sepahnews.com/News/tNews.Aspx

the above link allows you to check older articles. today's date is 4/21, so if you change the scrollable date adjustor on that page to 4/20 (haha) you can view yesterday's articles.

from the list of 4/20 articles, only one makes referrence to "missile", and again it is that previous article, which only has a pic of a single Shahab3 missile:

http://sepahnews.com/News/UNew.aspx?ID=12567&ZID=0&PID=0

so nowhere is there a trace of the pic of multiple missiles that are alleged to have originated at the sephanews.com site, nowhere.

the faked pic, if it ever existed on that iranian site, may have been "scrubbed", but the english article's stating "both pics were found on the site" and that the 4 missile pic exists on some publicly accessible archive of that sepahnews site, is most likely a lie. there is no evidence to support their claim that this fake pic originated from the iranians.



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DoYouEverWonder

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Jul 11 2008, 06:15 AM
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The image, posted Wednesday on a Web site owned by Iran's Revolutionary Guards, showed four missiles moments after launch, leaving trails of glowing exhaust and clouds of billowing brown dust.

The scene was described as part of military maneuvers in which nine missiles were test fired, including an enhanced version of the Shahab-3. Iranian officials say the new missile has a range of 1,250 miles, which would enable a strike on Israel and most of the Middle East. The tests drew immediate criticism from Washington.

Some media outlets used the photo, but it was not carried by The Associated Press.

The photo on the Sepah News site was replaced Thursday with an image showing three missiles — which appear to be the same as the earlier photo. In place of the fourth missile, however, the photo showed one still on the ground in its launch position and what appears to be a vehicle nearby.

That photo was used by the AP. The image with four launches was taken off the Sepah site's main news page, but both photos were on its archive Thursday.



http://www.sepahnews.com/
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http://sepahnews.com/nEWS/uNew.aspx?id=12506&pid=0
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search of the entire site for the farsi word for "missile" ( موشک ),

http://www.sepahnews.com/Search/UNews.aspx

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links back only to the same article from before, which features on the Shahab3 missile (singular) photo. there is no so-called "archive" except for the search function.


http://sepahnews.com/News/tNews.Aspx

the above link allows you to check older articles. today's date is 4/21, so if you change the scrollable date adjustor on that page to 4/20 (haha) you can view yesterday's articles.

from the list of 4/20 articles, only one makes referrence to "missile", and again it is that previous article, which only has a pic of a single Shahab3 missile:

http://sepahnews.com/News/UNew.aspx?ID=12567&ZID=0&PID=0

so nowhere is there a trace of the pic of multiple missiles that are alleged to have originated at the sephanews.com site, nowhere.

the faked pic, if it ever existed on that iranian site, may have been "scrubbed", but the english article's stating "both pics were found on the site" and that the 4 missile pic exists on some publicly accessible archive of that sepahnews site, is most likely a lie. there is no evidence to support their claim that this fake pic originated from the iranians.



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So there is no evidence that the doctored picture was posted or came from the Iranian site.

This story was front page news in the US for the last 2-3 days. This morning it's gone. Not even a mention of the faked image. I think this story backfired on the US big time.

In the meantime, it looks like the Iranians have called our bluff.

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Tests show US shield 'not needed'

Friday, 11 July 2008

The results of recent Iranian missile tests prove that US plans for a defence shield in Europe are unnecessary, says Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

He said the tests confirmed Tehran had missiles with a limited range of up to 2,000km (1,240 miles).

The US says it wants shield sites in Poland and the Czech Republic to defend US troops and allies from rogue states.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7501498.stm





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They added in smoke that wasn't there.

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This is a good example of another photo were a lot of people think smoke was added in too:

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Jeff: Val McClatchey... she has a famous photo.

Ms. Leverknight: It was a fake photo, because it didn't have a mushroom cloud.

http://flight93photo.blogspot.com/2007/03/shanksville-resident-says-val.html
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DoYouEverWonder

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Jul 11 2008, 12:01 PM
They added in smoke that wasn't there.

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This is a good example of another photo were a lot of people think smoke was added in too:

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Jeff: Val McClatchey... she has a famous photo.

Ms. Leverknight: It was a fake photo, because it didn't have a mushroom cloud.

http://flight93photo.blogspot.com/2007/03/shanksville-resident-says-val.html
It's easy to do in Photoshop if you have a perfectly clear blue sky to work with.

That's why the use blue screens in the movies.

It was the same on 9/11, another picture perfect day.
Edited by DoYouEverWonder, Jul 11 2008, 04:59 PM.
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ShaDow

"That's why the use blue screens in the movies. "

Green screening? like on the weather.
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ShaDow
Jul 11 2008, 06:58 PM
"That's why the use blue screens in the movies. "

Green screening? like on the weather.
Usually, they use blue. But either color works.


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Concept of Blue / Green Screen

Blue Screen was originally invented as a film technique to separate the actors and composite them over another background. But why blue? Blue may have been chosen because it is least prominent in skin tone. Skin tone is made of a combination of red and green with a little blue.

http://www.vce.com/bluescreen.html


Edited by DoYouEverWonder, Jul 11 2008, 08:07 PM.
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Jul 11 2008, 04:59 PM
It was the same on 9/11, another picture perfect day.
Which made it all the easier for the terrorists to hit those large buildings.
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Jul 11 2008, 09:00 PM
DoYouEverWonder
Jul 11 2008, 04:59 PM
It was the same on 9/11, another picture perfect day.
Which made it all the easier for the terrorists to hit those large buildings.
The real terrorists were in the buildings months before, planting thermate.
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This made me chuckle :

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:D
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Iran is just covering up the fact that they're missiles burst out like fireworks:
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This thread officially made me lol.
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Sureshot
Jul 12 2008, 05:56 PM
Iran is just covering up the fact that they're missiles burst out like fireworks:
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Ahhh dammit, I was gonna post that pic haha
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