Zombietime's definitive taxonomy of Lebanon II photo fraud:

The four types of photographic fraud perpetrated by Reuters photographers and editors are: 1. Digitally manipulating images after the photographs have been taken. 2. Photographing scenes staged by Hezbollah and presenting the images as if they were of authentic spontaneous news events. 3. Photographers themselves staging scenes or moving objects, and presenting photos of the set-ups as if they were naturally occurring. 4. Giving false or misleading captions to otherwise real photos that were taken at a different time or place.

Photographing scenes as spontaneous news events? Check:

Palestinians are... the only people on earth whose immediate urge, when their friends and fellows are injured, is to grab them and try to twist them into cruel and dangerous positions... The caption alleges that the young man being pulled and twisted like a quid of taffy by his friends here was shot by Israelis using live ammunition. Generally when someone is shot there would be a hole... accompanied by profuse bleeding. At first glance, the vivid red on the arms that hold the feet of the subject alarms the eye but on closer inspection... it is obvious that there is some combination of ugly clothing design... [and] obvious fakery.

Photographers staging scenes themselves? Check:

[A] Palestinian journalist complains that the media and others are manipulating the images going out to the world: "A mother of one of the martyrs stood by the door of the intensive care unit while crying... relatives and those around her were telling her what she should say to the television cameras: 'Say your son [before he died] prayed and went out.' Another tells her: 'Curse the Arab leaders'... The journalists [in the hospitals] are going overboard in their insensitivity and taking advantage of the [difficult] moments, with the explanation that they are showing this to the world. One cameraman told a mourning mother: 'Hit your face, cry, do some action.'"

False or misleading captions? Check:

Accompanying this article are three photographs of a bombed out location. Instead of noting in the captions that these photos were all of the same house, the intent is obviously to make you instead think that these are three different locations. They're not... They are, in fact, three photos of the same house from different angles by AP photographer Eyad Baba. One (of course) with a mother and child posing in front of it, another through a window in an obvious attempt to be poignant, and a third areal view of the entire bombed out area.

The only reason I'm leaving out the WaPo pictures of the healthy-looking children on stretchers is because I can't decide whether Hamas staged the scene or whether the photojournalist did the composition on his own. In any case: do you think they're dumb enough to try to photoshop pictures this time? My basic belief in behavioral conditioning says no. But my appreciation for the shamelessness of anti-Israel journalism says "I wish I had an eye for what a post-smudged clone tool looks like."

UPDATE: Lawhawk has a rigorous writeup on the first picture in this series. A case of changing captions seems transformed a malatov-throwing militant into an innocent bystander. Magical.

References:
* The Reuters Photo Scandal - A Taxonomy of Fraud [Zombietime]
* Can Public Broadcasting Really be THIS Contemptible? [Breath of the Beast]
* Gaza Mourners Exploited [Gaza Mourners Exploited]
* Three Photos of Same Location Accompny AP Article on I/P Conflict [Jawa]
* Anti-Israel Photojournalists Struggling To Cope With Extensive Israeli Humanitarian Measures, Low Palestinian Collateral Damage [MR]

Previously:
* Times Online: These Hamas Guys Are Actually OK Dudes, "Gaza Is A Secular Society"
* Video: Hamas Brags About Using Women And Children As Human Shields
* CNN: Israel Is Overreacting Because The Palestinians Are Too Incompetent To Murder Israelis Consistently