Reuters, a big-leagues news service owned by a $13 billion multinational corporation, is ducking critical questions about the death of a teenage war photographer who’d been selling pictures to the agency.
Tag: Molhem Barakat
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Trial by Slide Show? On Lens, Molhem Barakat and the Reuters Scandal
Trial by Slide Show? On Lens, Molhem Barakat and the Reuters Scandal – Reading The Pictures
It’s troubling to think that the last word on Molhem’s reputation might hinge on the slideshow, the visual association to a thickening scandal and a more nominal connection to suspect deeds.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/03/trial-by-slide-show-on-lens-molhem-barakat-and-the-reuters-scandal/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29
It’s in the slideshow where allegations incubate and where photos and captions function as much as innuendo as background.
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Child turned down by Al-Qaeda linked group dies shooting for Reuters in Syria
Teen turned down by Al-Qaeda linked group dies shooting for Reuters in Syria — duckrabbit
(please note when this post was first published it was widely reported that Barakat was seventeen. Reuters did nothing to…
via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2013/12/child-turned-down-by-al-queda-dies-shooting-for-reuters-in-syria/
Reuters did report that not only was Molhem Barakat a photographer on their books but also an ‘activist’. According to the reporter Hannah Lucinda Smith, Molhem was an ‘aspiring suicide bomber‘ who tried to join an Al-Qaeda offshoot earlier this year but was turned down for being unsuitable (Molem’s name is changed in her article).