Reuters Photographer Hajj Manipulates War Photos - Pluto Transit Through Sagittarius: Astrology In Real Life
Just Blathering…
I’ll tell you, this story upset me greatly. Reuters photographer Adnan Hajj doctored photos of the bombing in Beirut and it just sickens me. Because photoshopping the images to be more dramatic and then publishing them worldwide has the effect of inflaming the situation. As if people aren’t stirred up enough as it is.
And I thought of Pluto’s transit through Sagittarius. The shadow side (Pluto) of publishing (Sadge). And it made me wonder how common this is. Surely he’s not the only one.
And I thought of it in terms of another Pluto in Sadge phenomenon, the doping of athletes. Barry Bonds and the Floyd Landis and others, in the Tour De France. We have learned as a collective that doping is widespread. We are aware of this hidden, shadow side (Pluto) of sports (Sagittarius).
So what about the journalism (Sagittarius)? Will we discover this is the tip of the iceberg as far as manipulated images go? I wouldn’t be surprised. This bastard was making his career off the blood of others. What’s more repugnant than that? And as for war images in general, hey! Why put yourself in danger to get the shot when you whip up something in photoshop?
It smacks of Kaavya Viswanathan and other plagiarizers in recent history. Why do your own writing when you can use someone else’s and just slap your name on?
Click here for extensive report on the photos from The Jawa Report.
Click here for more on how Pluto’s transit through Sagittarius is manifesting in the collective from me.
And what do you think? Are these pictures an isolated incident? Or no?
5 Responses to “Reuters Photographer Hajj Manipulates War Photos - Pluto Transit Through Sagittarius: Astrology In Real Life”
I doubt seriously that this is a one time incident, especially considering what I’ve read, his excuse was ‘trying to remove dust’ from the photo. He knew better, and his excuse was weak and lame.
I don’t understand people who have to cheat to win, to be famous and/or recognized. Don’t they realize that they really haven’t won at all? And in such a fickle society, one tainted hero is easily the next day’s cannon fodder.
He probably wouldn’t have gotten as far as he did on the Tour; Floyd suffers from what is essentially a rotten hip. He fractured his hip years ago and as a result, the blood supply to the bone was cut off. This makes the bone die and rot and look like rotting wood. Floyd can’t even go up the stairs on his own. His doctors didn’t even expect him to run recreationally. I think this is the one thing that he wanted to do more than anything and he lost faith in himself. The fact is we the public also had ridiculous expectations that someone with this condition could win the most grueling endurance event without some help.
I’m not excusing what Floyd did. But I think we also have to examine our expectations which exert pressure on others to try to win at any cost. That’s also a manifestation of Pluto/Sag, no? Outsize expectations.
Manipulation of war images goes back to the second world war. Photographers would mash two or three photos together to get ‘the height of chaos’ that ‘actually’ happened- but they weren’t able to get the shot, eg: planes flying over ground troops with buildings burning in the background. Knowing how easy it is to manipulate photos now, I rarely trust media images.
Don’t be so hard on Floyd, eh. It’s a given that they are all cheating. I do really think that he was the best performer, and most ppl were happy to see him win (unlike that toolbox, Armstrong). If doping was allowed, then it wouldn’t be so dangerous to the riders health and we’d be able to concentrate on the competition.
I feel the same way about Floyd, Toni. I don’t buy that most of those guys aren’t doping. What he did was still an amazing athletic feat, even without his condition. I think he should say as much and come clean about it, though, bc right now his denial and excuses make him seem ridiculous.
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Unfortunately, I don’t think it is isolated at all. It’s so hard to judge the truth anymore, ratings and dollars being more important that being real and fair. It makes me sad.