Reuters withdraws photos after alterations found

There's a fine line between reporting the news and making the news. Reuters, you gone done crossed the line.

The Reuters news agency said Monday it has cut its ties with a Beirut-based freelance photographer who it found had manipulated two photographs from the ongoing fighting in Lebanon. It also removed all 920 pictures by the photographer from its database.

Reuters isn't the only news outlet guilty of spinning the news in order to sell more papers or glue more eyes to their programs. The media has become a mighty powerful enitity, twisting fact and fiction in order to make you believe as they want you to, create controversy that truly doesn't exist and, above all else, make money. It's become a corrupted system. There is no longer truth in media, only truth in perception. Where once, in the great nations, people relied on the media, the newspapers, the town criers, to report to them the happenings of the world surrouding them unbiasly and without opinion, it now sees us as consumers, as cattle to be led towards opinions and outcomes that they have preordained for us. The media is slowly wiping away our capabilities of independant thought and we allow it. Why? Because they've led us to believe that it's what we wanted all along.
Hey...I just won an Emmy.

The agency said that as a result of the discovery it has put in place tighter editing procedures for images from the Middle East, requiring that all such photos be reviewed by the top photo editors at Reuters' global photo desk.

Why just the Middle East? Why not make sure everything you publish and distribute is TRUE!?