The mighty New York Times deigns to cover the Reuters scandal today, in an article in business section (of all places), by Katharine Seelye and Julie Bosman. Speaking of fraudster Adnan Hajj, they write  Still, Reuters officials said they were unaware that any American newspapers had run the two pictures in question, although dozens of papers, including The New York Times, have printed his pictures over the years. The Times, which ran a picture of his as recently as Saturday on its front page, has published eight of Mr. Hajj's Associated Press and Reuters photographs since March 2005. Times editors said a review of those pictures found none that appeared to have been changed improperly. So the little truth is that the Times believes that it has not run any of Mr. Hajj's Photshopped pictures. But the larger truth of both Mr. Hajj and the other photographers covering locales dominated by terrorists and thugs is that staging and cropping are even bigger problems than...(Read Full Post)